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Business model

Dockless bike-sharing via app-unlocked bicycles placed across cities.

In brief

One of the pioneers of China's dockless bike-share boom, expanding aggressively into dozens of countries while burning cash on manufacturing, maintenance, and user deposits that were meant to be refundable. A brutal price war with rival Mobike, mounting refund obligations, and ov…

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