Spring Free EV's Sunil Paul: "I've been trying to give away this idea for 10 years"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Spring Free EV's Sunil Paul: "I've been trying to give away this idea for 10 years"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:50:44
• Published: 2022-04-29 23:49

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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