Sunil patel is our guest to talk about his new company. It's called spring free e v, which is an electric vehicle financing start up with a really interesting model. His journey in tex starts all the way back at aowell where he was the first and only internet product manager had to america on line. He went on to found another couple companies who went through the dot com bus, the first clean tech one, point o bust,. navigated the financial crisis started a ride sharing company way back in two thousand 11.
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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