The Scooter Ecosystem with Michal Naka

Oliver Bruce
Podcast
November 21, 2018

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In today’s episode, we’re joined by Twitter micromobility celebrity MichalNaka (@michalnaka), to talk about scooters, how they’re evolving inhardware and their interactions with cities and what the future might looklike. It’s a packed episode.Specifically we cover:- How Michal ended up in micromobility through his skepticism of autonomouscars. (5:50->)- How the most valuable miles travelled are likely to be addressed bymicromobility and not autonomous. (9:20->)- The history of the scooter supply chain.(13:00->)- The tradeoff that companies are making between opex and capex. (25:50->)- What future evolutions we’re likely to see in (29:30->)- How cities are responding to these new business models, and what we’relikely to see in the future. (33:46->)- How the diffusion theory applies to scooters and their evolution.(40:30->)

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