Handful of interesting points:<p>a) Scoot raised something like $47,000,000. This article reports a cash and stock deal of $25,000,000.<p>b) Scoot launched in 2012 and spent their first 6 years renting mopeds and electric bikes, only recently launching what we all think of as "scooters" in late 2018.<p>c) The founder illustrates what Scoot saw as a gigantic problem in the space - theft and vandalism (1). He then wrote a follow-up post a few months later illustrating their solution - a proprietary lock adapter from their bike sharing network (2). I wonder if we'll see this technology rolled out @ Bird?<p>(1) <a href="https://medium.com/@mbkeating/what-we-learned-from-our-first-month-of-operating-scoot-kicks-dcd9a677db15" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@mbkeating/what-we-learned-from-our-first...</a><p>(2) <a href="https://medium.com/@mbkeating/one-of-our-kicks-was-stolen-last-weekend-8cfdf94979b6" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@mbkeating/one-of-our-kicks-was-stolen-la...</a>