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Umbrella-sharing startup loses nearly all of its 300,000 umbrellas in a matter of weeks
With bike-sharing companies like Mobike becoming incredibly successful in Chinese cities, a few startups have decided to mimic the concept with shareable umbrellas. The only problem: most of the umbrellas have gone missing. Only a few weeks after starting up operations in 11 cities across China, Sharing E Umbrella announced that it had lost almost all of its 300,000 umbrellas.
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Yeah, this is a non-sequitur. Compare the number of times you've lost your umbrella to the number of times you've lost your bike.
I never lose my umbrella, it always breaks on me before I get a chance to lose it.
Right, that's the other thing. Wind gusts are much less likely to break a bike.
I have dozens of umbrellas. Somewhere.