Silicon Valley scooter startup Bird bet big on Paris and lost to rivals. Insiders are betting on consolidation.
The startup had been operating in Paris since 2018, and Bird executive Patrick Studener said at the time that Paris and France more broadly were key markets for the company.It was primed to dominate the emerging electric scooter market, just as Uber had created and dominated the ride hailing market. VanderZanden himself previously been a growth exec at Uber and his new company wasBut a year on, Bird has been booted from its "second home.
As VanderZanden made his remarks last summer, Paris authorities simultaneously decided that the chaos caused by the 12 different scooter operators renting out vehicles on its streets needed to be curbed., Business Insider revealed that Bird had lost the tender to its rivals Lime, Tier, and Dott."Paris is the Valhalla of mobility," Noa Khamallah, a former executive at Lime and Voi and now senior vice president and cofounder at scooter charging startup Charge, told Business Insider.
Bird declined to comment but a source close to the company admitted that the decision was a disappointment for the startup. Paris alone, with its 5,000 scooters, won't make or break the company but the failure was hard to take. announced"The loss in Paris hurts a bit yes, but add Lyon on top of that and it puts Bird in a tough spot versus Lime, they operate in the same markets and now Lime has an advantage," Charge's Khamallah said.
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