The idea of using a kind of financial fintek innovation to make vehicles more fortable is something that's been kicking around my head for a long time, more than a decade. There were three things that came together to have me realize, oh, i should go do something. One was, you meber the day of orange here in the baarea. I wrote a whole piece around it for it. And that and other wildfire seasons here in the bay area, i start to asking myself, what more can i do?
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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