Detailed VC app: Why is the shared electric scooter Bird valued at $2 billion?
In the winter of 2017, in my country, the shared bicycle market was eliminated. In 2018, this once-popular economic model is now not favored by the public. But abroad, a company that also holds a shared economic model is steadily developing, attracting more and more people's attention. Unlike shared bikes, this company called Bird shares an electric scooter. Users only need to download the Bird app, open it and find the nearest Bird (electric scooter), then scan the QR code on the body to use it. After the use, Bird will charge directly from the user's mobile phone. Compared with the shared bicycle that focuses on "solving the last mile", Bird's founders believe that electric scooters are the way to solve the user's "last mile" pain point. Recently, Bird officially announced the latest round of $300 million in financing – less than 18 months before the company was founded. The young company, born with a shared economic gene, has opened up ...