This was really so far the best table talk I’ve been attended!

It was led by our GRF Seema, talking about the bike sharing system in the world. She was very knowledgeable in the city planning, the capital and the history of the bike sharing system, and engaged us in this super interesting conversation. I’m especially interested in this topic because I use bike sharing a lot in the city transporting from subway to school, or for the walk that is too far on foot, yet too close for a car. I never thought about how advertising company would like to fund or start the bike sharing business, which totally makes sense, since they can do advertisement at the bike station and on the bike, and as people riding the bike around the city, so does their advertisement. It’s a business model that is beneficial to everyone, and more sustainable compared to pure funding of the government.

Also, I learnt that the first bike sharing system was in Amsterdam to protest against too many laws in favour of car drivers.

I enjoyed this table talk so much, and I’d love to have more such interesting conversation about business or city planning in the future.