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Getaround, a San Francisco startup and VC darling turned publicly traded SPAC, shut down its U.S. operations one year after cutting 30% of its North American workforce as part of a restructuring. The company also expanded its existing partnership with Shake Shack and added another with Mister O1 Extraordinary Pizza, so customers in Miami ordering from those restaurants on Uber Eats might have their food delivered by a bot. Beta Technologies has flown somewhat more under the radar than its competition in the electric aviation industry, but the startup has been quietly growing the business and collecting more piloted flight hours than anyone else under the leadership of its tattooed, enigmatic founder and CEO, Kyle Clark, writes senior reporter Rebecca Bellan.
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