i want to know if there are any parallels you can see, or kind of comparison you can make. i was lucky enough to land the job as the internet pro manager at a company called america on line before it was more officially changed to a o l rit a. It seems to me we are at the cusp of a new wave. When you have people like stanley think at black rock saying, you know, the next thousand billionaires who can be climate tech billionaires,. it does feel like a gaiing going back to the idea of this big secular shift in all ouknow and capital markets.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sunil Paul to talk about how the “orange day” inspired him to start Spring Free (4:00), pioneering car-sharing and ride-sharing (9:50), why his company Sidecar didn’t work (14:35), the idea behind Spring Free (17:35), the Airbnb of electric vehicles (21:50), finding enough cars (27:40), getting billionaires to back him (32:10), applying the lessons form ride-sharing (33:00), building Spring Free as a consumer fintech brand (38:40), comparing the climate opportunity to the dawn of the web and his early days at AOL (40:00), and his worst day (47:25).
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