Uber's two-wheeled competitor: how a former top manager of the company created an alternative to taxis
What's happened Former Uber executive Travis Vanderzanden, who was accused of corporate espionage, left the company and launched his startup, Bird, an electric scooter rental service, last year. Neither the high-profile scandal he found himself in the center of, nor problems with the authorities prevented his new company from raising a total of $115 million, and the service itself from quickly becoming very popular.