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0 pointsicebraining11y ago0 comments

Many people with reduced mobility (e.g. my grandmothers) can't ride them, though. There's space for alternatives.

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jarek11y ago· 1 in thread

The bicycle is a 80/20 solution, but it's hard to make VC-level money in the business. Plus, a few more decades of high-tech short-distance personal transportation and we'll all look like in Wall-E and the bicycle will become 20/80.

tlb11y ago

Don't dismiss it out of hand. The world bicycle market is $70B/yr. A Silicon Valley company, Specialized, makes $500M/yr revenue. If you had the next thing that millions of people would commute short distances on, there's more than enough potential for VC.

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