It’s been a month since I brought back Oversharing as a full-time, subscriber-supported publication on Substack. For the past month, I mostly published everything for free, but as of this week most subscriber-only content will be, well, subscriber-only.
For anyone who has just joined: Free subscribers get the Tuesday edition of Oversharing rounding up the news. Paid subscribers get that plus two additional posts each week with the deeper dives, access to the full archive, and exclusive access to comments and community threads.
Here are the types of stories you can expect as a paid subscriber to Oversharing:
🛴 Shared scooters don’t last long - a data analysis showing the average lifespan of a shared e-scooter in Louisville, Kentucky, over five months in 2018 was 28 days. First published in Oversharing, the 28-day figure was widely cited in micromobility spheres and changed the discussion of scooter unit economics.
💵 A simple, brilliant formula for paying Uber drivers more - a clear and detailed explainer of the pay formula behind the influential, first-of-its kind wage floor for ride-hail drivers in New York City
🍕 Why Just Eat soured on Grubhub - subscribers only - an in-depth, chart-filled look at why European food delivery giant Just Eat is looking to unload Grubhub less than a year after its $7.3 billion acquisition closed
🔥 Inside Helbiz's hell biz - subscribers only - we dig through micromobility firm Helbiz’s 2021 annual report to understand why the company recently issued a ‘going concern’ warning and what that says about the shared e-scooter business more broadly
Going forward, my Q&A series with industry scholars and experts—Marshall Steinbaum on the antitrust case against the gig economy, Niels van Doorn on what ethnography can teach the gig economy—will also be for paid subscribers.
In other things: I’m speaking at the Micromobility Europe conference in Amsterdam June 1-2. If you’ll also be there, reach out about grabbing a coffee while in town.
See you Tuesday,
Ali