TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

par | Mar 18, 2022 | Aerospace, Aviation, buy now pay later, ceo, Co-founder, Delivery Hero, Dmitry Shevelenko, e-commerce, EC roundup, Enterprise, eVTOL, Federal Communications Commission, Finance, founder, Fundings & Exits, hiring, india, jifiti, Joby Aviation, lawyer, Lilium, M&A, Personnel, reporter, SaaS, San Francisco, Startup company, Startups, TC, tortoise, Transportation, United States, urban air mobility, venture capital, versatile

“Where’s my flying car?” is a staple of Gen X humor, since it reaffirms the cynical viewpoint that technology frequently fails to deliver on its lofty promises. Until recently, electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles were largely consigned to...

Daily Crunch: $8.5B Amazon-MGM merger will bring thousands of titles to Prime Video

par | Mar 17, 2022 | Amie, Android, apple, Asia, AWS, chicago, Daily Crunch, Dmitry Shevelenko, e-commerce, ethereum, getir, Google, Instagram, Maserati, meta, Mubadala Investment Company, newsletters, Paradigm, russia, Startups, tiktok, tile, tortoise, ukraine, upstash, venture capital

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 17, 2022! We have an absolute mountain of news to climb today, so we’re going to...

Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko: ‘You can’t do too many things at the same time’

par | Mar 16, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Dmitry Shevelenko, e-bikes, EC Mobility Hardware, EC Robotics, Hardware, micromobility, Robotics, sidewalk delivery robot, Skyryse, Spin, spothero, Startups, TC, tortoise, transport, Transportation, Uber

For a company named after a slow reptile, Silicon Valley startup Tortoise has made some quick pivots into new business models over the past year. Co-founded in 2019 by ex-Uber executive Dmitry Shevelenko, the company began with a mission of being the operating system...