Michael Keating

Michael Keating

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Ownership is the new sharing

Michael Keating
October 01
Ten years ago, my team and I launched the first electric scooter sharing company, Scoot, in San Francisco. We designed a piece of electronics that gave each scooter an internet connection, and we created an app to find them, pay for them, and turn them on. Today, scores of companies offer over a million shared e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-motorbikes in cities all over the world. They have been ridden by hundreds of millions of people, most of them experiencing electric mobility for the first time, and loving it.
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Electric vehicles are digital assets

Michael Keating
September 12
Electric vehicles will be among the biggest web3 real world asset classes because they are natively controlled by software.

early work

Before starting to write at Mirror, I published at Medium, mostly about transportation and my previous company, Scoot. Some highlights are here: