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Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic

TechCrunch LA

One year after a $38 million Series B valued on-demand aviation startup Blade at $140 million, the company has begun taxiing the Bay Area’s elite. The goal is to shorten trips made excruciatingly long due to bad traffic in major cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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Micromobility in limbo: Takeaways from Paris and LA

TechCrunch LA

We decided to take a look at two cities that were at the forefront of the e-scooter revolution – Los Angeles and Paris. Fluctuo, an aggregator of shared mobility data, found the average scooter trip length in Paris was 2.67 Are shared e-scooters the answer to that, or are they just another shitty option? LA is different.