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VOICE ARCHIVE

Aaron W. Gordon

@a_w_gordon
24 posts
2024-10-13
Really proud to work with @LeonYin, @natlungfy and @DeniseDSLu on this one. Imagine having to constantly tap a button in an app all day to find out if you're allowed to work. That's what Uber/Lyft drivers in NYC had to do all summer (and Lyft still does). https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full...

2024-10-12
Really proud to work with @LeonYin, @natlungfy and @DeniseDSLu on this one. Imagine having to constantly tap a button in an app all day to find out if you're allowed to work. That's what Uber/Lyft drivers in NYC had to do all summer (and Lyft still does). https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-10-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …

2020-07-07
Bird laid off more than 400 people just a few days before the CARES Act passed. https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-07 View on X
The Verge

A list of some tech companies the SBA says have received PPP loans of more than $150K; Bird and Index Ventures say they are wrongly listed

Scooter companies, AV startups, LIDAR manufacturers among companies receiving PPP loans  —  Bird, the beleaguered e-scooter company …

2020-07-04
The shit the VC bros are saying now is arguably worse than the shit that they're mad the media reported on to begin with, but they lack the introspection to realize that. https://www.vice.com/...
2020-07-04 View on X
VICE

Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz

chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... @jason : Fair warning: everything you say on #Clubhouse is being covertly recorded by journalists to weaponize a...

2020-07-03
The shit the VC bros are saying now is arguably worse than the shit that they're mad the media reported on to begin with, but they lack the introspection to realize that. https://www.vice.com/...
2020-07-03 View on X
VICE

Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz

In leaked audio from an invite-only app, venture capitalists pondered everything they think is wrong with journalism.

2020-06-24
When Uber sold JUMP Bikes just 2 years after paying $200 million for it, I started reporting what went wrong. The story I found was about much more than bikeshare and micromobility, but what happens when a few wealthy VCs set out to disrupt a market. https://www.vice.com/...
2020-06-24 View on X
VICE

Former JUMP employees blame the bikeshare company's downfall on Uber applying a software business mentality to a transportation business after acquiring it

One morning at the end of May, Mark Miretsky awoke in his San Francisco apartment and groggily browsed his phone.  There was no rush to get up. Tweets: @a_w_gordon , @counternotion...

Social Bicycles was a bikeshare company that methodically worked with cities to create long-term, sustainable bikeshare programs, because bikes are good. Then venture capital thought bikeshare was the hot new thing. This is the story of what happened next. https://www.vice.com/...
2020-06-24 View on X
VICE

Former JUMP employees blame the bikeshare company's downfall on Uber applying a software business mentality to a transportation business after acquiring it

One morning at the end of May, Mark Miretsky awoke in his San Francisco apartment and groggily browsed his phone.  There was no rush to get up. Tweets: @a_w_gordon , @counternotion...

2020-06-15
Wait a minute...is it pronounced “qui-bye?” https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M

Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic

All these media galaxy brain jabronis could do so much more good for the world *and* quietly yield a very small but positive profit by investing in local news. https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M

Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic

2020-06-03
“Those are two very powerful statements that Facebook is making - making it harder for us to vote and making us more unsafe from a hostile, violence-inciting president.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-06-03 View on X
Axios

After discussing the lack of action on Trump's posts with Mark Zuckerberg, civil rights leaders say they are “stunned by Mark's incomprehensible explanations”

and what are you standing for? https://www.cnbc.com/... Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : On CNBC, Color for Change's Rashad Robinson, who spoke with Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, said Zu...

“Those are two very powerful statements that Facebook is making - making it harder for us to vote and making us more unsafe from a hostile, violence-inciting president.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-06-03 View on X
New York Times

On a call with Facebook employees Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg stood firmly behind his decision to leave up President Trump's inflammatory posts

In a call with Facebook employees, who have protested the inaction on President Trump's messages, Mark Zuckerberg said his decision was “pretty thorough.”

2020-05-08
A lot of companies are going to use “unprecedented economic uncertainty” as cover to cancel projects for other reasons. My hunch is that's what's going on here with Sidewalk Labs cancelling the Toronto project, which a lot of people hated. https://medium.com/...
2020-05-08 View on X
BetaKit

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty”

Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto.  The company noted the decision was due to the current …

2020-05-07
A lot of companies are going to use “unprecedented economic uncertainty” as cover to cancel projects for other reasons. My hunch is that's what's going on here with Sidewalk Labs cancelling the Toronto project, which a lot of people hated. https://medium.com/...
2020-05-07 View on X
BetaKit

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty”

Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto.  The company noted the decision was due to the current …

2020-02-11
.@josephfcox found Edison, a popular email client for Mac that boasts about its commitment to “privacy” in fact reads your emails and sells the data to small outfits like JP Freaking Morgan https://www.vice.com/...
2020-02-11 View on X
VICE

Sources detail how popular email apps like Edison, Slice, and Cleanfox scrape users' inboxes, using harvested data to power market research products

The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users' email inboxes …

2020-01-29
This is really clever and also I'm giggling to myself thinking how badly this algorithm would initially do on NYC roads. https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-29 View on X
CNET

Lime to pilot AI-based technology in San Jose, CA which it claims warns riders when they are on a sidewalk 50% or more of the time

Dara Kerr / CNET :

2020-01-10
Huh, 11 of 12 cities are ones with warm weather and year-round scooter ops (Linz, Austria the exception) https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-10 View on X
Axios

Lime says it is laying off about 14% of its workforce, roughly 100 employees, and shuttering operations in 12 markets as it seeks to become profitable this year

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios :

2020-01-01
Kinda fucked up the gig economy companies get to sue to block laws that apply to an entire class of workers while they make their workers agree to arbitration clauses that block them from suing to influence the same exact thing https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-01-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Uber, Postmates sue CA to block AB-5, days ahead of bill taking effect, say law unconstitutionally targets gig economy companies and benefits other industries

- Companies call labor rights measure unfair, unconstitutional  — A.B. 5 will qualify many contractors for employment benefits

2019-11-03
$2.1 billion to get information my doctor won't even email to another doctor without me signing a release feels exceedingly cheap. https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-03 View on X
The Information

Source: Facebook held talks to acquire Fitbit but wanted to pay roughly half of the $2.1B that Google eventually agreed to pay

it has to be extremely valuable to Google. Of course, the acquisition can also affect that trust, if no lessons are learnt from Nest. https://twitter.com/... Luther Lowe / @lutherl...

$2.1 billion to get information my doctor won't even email to another doctor without me signing a release feels exceedingly cheap. https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-03 View on X
The Verge

Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest

The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this?  —  Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.

2019-11-02
$2.1 billion to get information my doctor won't even email to another doctor without me signing a release feels exceedingly cheap. https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-02 View on X
The Verge

Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest

The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this?  —  Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.