{"id":16309,"date":"2018-04-10T05:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=16309"},"modified":"2018-04-11T21:46:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T21:46:54","slug":"jump-goes-two-wheels-uber-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/innovation-business\/jump-goes-two-wheels-uber-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump Goes on Two Wheels to Uber Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

First was the wheel, then the 4 wheels\u2026 now the bike sharing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

By<\/strong> Oso Oseguera<\/a>\u00a0| oso.oseguera@ceo-latam.com<\/p>\n

Uber\u2019s history is about taking people from point A to B.<\/p>\n

Dara Khosrowshahi, the new Uber CEO, made his first acquisition: Jump Bikes, a startup that rents out shared electric dockless bikes in San Francisco and Washington DC.<\/p>\n

Enthusiastic and happy Khosrowshahi wrote an email: \u201cI\u2019m excited to share the news that we\u2019ve entered into an agreement to acquire Jump Bikes<\/a>, an electric, dockless bikesharing service we\u2019ve already been partnering with in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heard me talk a lot about Uber as a platform\u2014using the power of our technology, our on-the-ground Ops know-how, and global scale to provide more options for multimodal transportation to help people (or stuff) get from point A to B.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deal comes two months after Uber partnered<\/a> with Jump in San Francisco to make bike rentals available through the Uber app. Dockless bike shares, which allow users to leave their rides just about anywhere when they\u2019re done with a journey, have quickly become a huge business in China and are rapidly expanding into some US cities. Critics say they can cause a huge mess as broken and vandalized bikes are abandoned.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch reports<\/a> that the deal was valued at close to $200 million. Jump, which launched in 2008 as Social Bicycles, had raised about $15 million in funding. In January the company became the first in San Francisco<\/a> to receive a permit for a dockless e-bike program. Jump\u2019s team will stay \u201cindependent and focused on growth vs. integration,\u201d with CEO Ryan Rzepecki reporting directly to Khosrowshahi, Uber\u2019s CEO told his company in the email refered.<\/p>\n

In a post on Medium<\/a>, Rzepecki said Khosrowshahi\u2019s leadership made Jump feel more comfortable with the deal. \u201cWe could see the shift in the company once Dara was named CEO as he began leading with humility and in a way that we felt reflected our values,\u201d Rzepecki wrote.<\/p>\n

Expanding into alternative modes of transportation like bikes dovetails nicely with Uber\u2019s need to reestablish itself as a friend of cities, rather than a foe. The company has made enemies of many local governments with its barge-in strategy over the last 10 years, and now is rarely given the benefit of the doubt. In cities including New York and Uber\u2019s hometown of San Francisco, for example, the company faces pressure<\/a> from transit experts and regulators who say ride-hailing has worsened congestion and decreased use of public transit systems.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the move into dockless bikes could reenforce skepticism from opponents who say un-docked bikes clutter city streets and sidewalks, and encourage theft and vandalism. Such concerns have led many large US cities to cap the number of bikes allowed or resist dockless bike-share entirely. \u201cYou drive down a street, you see bikes everywhere, all scattered out,\u201d Dallas City Council member Tennell Atkins told the Wall Street Journal<\/a> on March. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to think it through. It\u2019s a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n

With information from Quartz Media<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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