Opinion

October 15, 2019

Another pointless app – no thanks

Investors are obsessed with memory foam mattresses, taxi-hailing apps, electric scooters and ready meals like these are the most important problems on the planet.


Jana Bakunina

3 min read

JANA BAKUNINA

I spent the last weeks of the summer in the mountains of Central Asia.

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