Brad Bao explains how Lime uses technology to improve urban life, starting with transportation. The company sees itself as an urban living platform aiming to enhance connectivity and efficiency in how people move through cities.
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The mission for Lime, again, that is not a bike share company, not a share a scooter company, but more an urban living platform, if you would. I think when it comes to technology and how that will impact our life, there's always the left and right and debates on technologies adding values, technologies taking away our social time, technologies drawn us into the digital media and forget about family and all that stuff. At Tencent, all we do is about online life. I'm proud of that experience, learn a lot from it. But for Lime and for the things we're doing here is all about how we leverage technology to empower users real world life to make it better, more connected, well educated, informed, more efficient, more enjoyable and more eco friendly. So we started with transportation that you guess user from A to B. But user go out for a reason. You don't go out just for go out. You go out to work, you go out to school, to lunch, to dinner, to meeting friends, to bars, to coffee, to groceries. And the next step for us is how do we help them to connect that piece in terms of the user being more informed, be connected and also much more, again, more efficient and more enjoyable. And that will be the next chapter for Lime in terms of the product roadmap.