Lay of The Land #163: Ryan McManus (SHARE Mobility) — Mobility as a Service & The Future of Transportation
Ryan McManus — founder and CEO of SHARE Mobility
Ryan is passionate about solving workforce and rural mobility challenges, creating and affording equitable access to transportation, and ultimately changing the way people actually commute.
To this end, SHARE Mobility, which raised over $12 million in funding from investors like JumpStart Ventures here in Cleveland, JobsOhio, Iron Gate Capital, Seamless Capital, and Venn Ventures among others, is a mobility-as-a-service platform empowering companies and municipalities to seamlessly implement a new transportation program or optimize existing ones as part of an employee benefits program.
Practically, this has resulted in exciting mobility programs and pilots like one with the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority's (GCRTA) to expand equitable access to employment opportunities in Solon for all the Greater Cleveland region, providing first and last-mile ridings from public transit centers to employment sites.
In a world where many frontline workers don't have access to a car and we’re increasingly thinking about mobility holistically, Ryan has a fascinating and unique perspective on autonomous vehicles, connected car innovations, multimodal transportation, the transition to mobility subscriptions from car ownership, what mobility-as-a-service even is, and a whole lot more. I enjoyed getting to learn from Ryan about where this space is headed, SHARE Mobility’s role in shaping it, and his reflections on entrepreneurship.
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LINKS:
https://www.sharemobility.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanpmcmanus/
https://twitter.com/rynmcmns
https://twitter.com/ridewithshare
https://www.instagram.com/ridewithshare
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