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China's Bonkers Bike-share Bubble
About this video
An Asianometry documentary-style video on the rise and collapse of China's dockless bike-share boom. It covers the startups, the heavy subsidies and the price wars.
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HN cites it as an analogy for loss-leader pricing and market-share wars, for example in AI pricing.
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From the Hacker News discussion
China is a tough place to do business even for domestic small firms. [VIDEO] >I don’t know how you could possibly truly innovate the pipeline process more than it has already been done There are things China does well, things the US does well, and a lot of people building stuff for fun. Yet doing business in North America can be just as challenging for different "reasons". =3
Read original comment ↗Might have been the bike share bubble? Asianometry - China's Bonkers Bike-share Bubble [VIDEO] and China Observer - bike graveyard [LINK] During: [LINK] After: [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Demand is relative. How many Claude tokens would you buy if they had a 10x price hike? The market has achieved it's current saturation level with loss-leader prices that remind me of the Chinese bike share bubble[0]. Once those prices go up to break even levels (let alone profitable levels), the number of people who can afford to pay will go down dramatically (and that's not even accounting for the bubble pop further constricting people's finances). [0] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗It reminds me of the Chinese bike wars where everyone was slashing prices trying to keep marketshare until the bubble burst and everyone lost billions. [VIDEO]
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