Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. Bird already has an enormous lead in data collection. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! There is nothing viral! Not really.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

“Our product roadmap is high confidential, but let’s say our high-level vision looking a decade or so forth is to take people out of the loop and have a completely automated data collection, processing and analysis,” co-founder and CEO Maximillion Boosfeld told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Of course, there’s another upside to all this data collection on driver behavior. Agrawal says his company collects about 700 million miles per month worth of data, analyzing it to identify every potential scenario a driver can get themselves into.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I was joined by Hana Mohan, a transgender woman who is the CEO and co-founder of MagicBell; Leslie Feinzaig, a Latina entrepreneur who started the Female Founders Alliance; and Stephen Bailey, a Black man who is the founder and CEO of ExecOnline, an online leadership development platform. Thanks again to the panelists who joined me.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 3, 2025

Cities are using AI to streamline government operations (65%), improve public transportation (64%), enhance risk monitoring and emergency response (62%), manage urban infrastructure (60%), drive sustainability efforts (60%), and improve residents well-being (57%). These initiatives often align with national AI strategies.

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