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No - and renting out scooters is a model that can totally work.

But do micro mobility companies have the scaling potential/dynamic of a Google or Facebook (which would justify the way they raise money)?

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What's this thing with prefixing 'micro'? Either you provide mobility, or you don't. Same with services.

Agree, it seems to assume that the unit of mobility is something larger, like a car. When the fundamental unit of human mobility is just that, a human, since they are inherently mobile. We would do better to describe cars as macro mobility than scooters and bikes as micro. Pipe dream, I know.

Speaking only for "micro mobility", it seems useful to distinguish allowing someone to travel within a city from between cities from between continents. Sure, it's mobility, but there are different kinds or degrees of mobility.

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