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Bill Ferrell
Oct 18, 2021
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Pave bikes - https://www.pavemotors.com/platform

  • You buy an electric bike. You get the bike + an NFT

  • Now you can control who has access to your bike based on who has the NFT

  • You can also rent your bike out to anyone with the Pave app and a Pave NFT. You can set rules for where the bike must be returned, the rate, etc.

  • Renting your bike out is secured by a crypto deposit - if not returned, not in the correct place, or damaged — you keep the crypto deposit.

Takeaway: It is now easy to establish and run a system for authorizing users, managing a security deposit, and defining acceptable outcomes in software.


Bike messenger in NYC

Great read on how hard it is to be an UberEats/DoorDash/etc bike-based delivery person in NYC.

Tidbits:

  1. Arrow has an excellent eBike + service model for delivery bikers - allowing for free tune-ups, and a quick way to do bike re-charging

  2. Delivery folks need a place to recharge — and have resorted to renting a parking space as a group - to get access to electricity/bathrooms/a place to rest.


It’s always incentives

Twitter avatar for @wolfejoshJosh Wolfe @wolfejosh
BRILLIANT piece by @sequoia Mike Moritz If Barcelona ⚽️ had given Messi EQUITY 📈… (requiring it be sold on departure from team) …instead of just throwing cash they’d not be drowned in debt💰🏦 📉 and have better aligned incentives Like the best high-tech ventures:
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August 17th 2021

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Fun

Twitter avatar for @uhoelzleUrs Hölzle @uhoelzle
A trip down memory lane...exactly 23 years ago Google signed its first datacenter contract.  Let's walk through the lease in a thread. First, the copy you see here was sent by a "fax machine" which was something people used back then.
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September 26th 2021

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