Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kristopolous 2604 days ago
Successful pivoting from service to products isn't common. I'm guessing their financials on the rental model aren't panning out.

This is an attempt to Tesla/iPhone the scooter market. Let's see what the consumer appetite is. I'm guessing the Bird brand is already tarnished with adjectives like "cheap" and "broken" so this may be an uphill battle.
1 comments
nerfhammer 2604 days ago
If they stocked n-thousand of these scooters, why not see how many people are willing to buy them (at 600% markup)? They already have whatever economies of scale for stocking the scooters for their rental business.
link
kristopolous 2604 days ago
Yeah why not? Just charge a price and see what happens. Willingness to pay is based on value perception and that's a hard thing to gauge.

I'm not seeing a rosy path to victory though.

link