i suggest you try pitching to Jason Calacanis. He likes entrepreneurs with deep domain knowledge. you can find his direct email for pitching on his twitter.
My first thought is Bezos has probably dispatched aggressive lobbyists to try to kill this bill.
America will only continue to become more corporately corrupt until we have a Congress with enough backbone to PERMANENTLY BAN all forms of lobbying and limit congressional term limits immediately.
The American dream isn't to monopolize the entire country with 3 or 4 mega corporations. CALL YOUR SENATORS.
Uh well, as a Westerner I'm not afraid of robots because of awesome Japanese anime like EVANGELION, patlabor, gundam, macross, voltron, eureka, list goes on and on.
Have lived in sf almost a decade. As someone also trapped in the housing struggle (gonna be a very long time until i can afford buying), I too do not want to see the city overrun by high rises, like NYC. I love NYC, but theres a reason why the two are distinctly different from one another.
the only way to get our heads over this crisis is to
1) increase tax on landlords and property owners who raise rent on their renters over 2% annually. that $ will go directly to addressing homelessness. why companies are targeted for increased taxes for this purpose is frankly, stupid as hell.
2) change zoning laws to permit up to 5 story single family homes, strictly for specific neighborhoods.
i believe Mayor Breed will tackle this problem with success.
VCs are laughable fools for dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into this. there is very little profit margin, even ride sharing isnt really profitable yet after nearly 10 years.
not against scooters, but Bird being valued at over a billion? venture capital has really lost its collective mind!
I see your point, but counter it with the infamous Tesla.
Tesla, while on the outside appears majestic and glorious, internally is savage, cut-throat, and miserable in some departments. YET, they have very, very minimal internal leaks.
has JUMP been profitable at all whatsoever? how can they possibly be valued at $200m? nothing against cycles or dockless sharing (love Birds), but this is just outright nonsense. another overvalued startup, another example of why Uber doesn't know how to properly use its capital resources.
same could be said about movies and tv shows. and netflix had no problem exploiting a market opportunity (produce actual quality content unlike the plethora of vapid crap currently pumped out on the mainstream media networks). so not hard to believe spotify can take the same approach. whether they can be successful is the big question.
in a time when our government agencies (EPA) are defying scientific data and permitting OEMs to continue raping the planet, we all need to chill the hell out and continue supporting Tesla.
Our children and grandchildren deserve a better world. Additionally, China will outright leapfrog America in the EV/energy race. Tesla must survive; America depends on it.