Someone Robbed a Bank With His Car. Now He Runs 1,000s of Them | Ep 157
In college, Rei Vardi tried renting out his car to cover the payments. Within weeks it had been scratched, dented, smoked in, and used in a bank robbery. Eight years later he's the founder and CEO of Eon, an automated car-sharing platform with several thousand cars nationwide, a 15-person team, and no ad spend, ever. Rei and Vin talk about building slowly on purpose, why ads can become a black hole, the $5-a-day way to test them, and why businesses built on physical assets may outlast software in the AI era.
Takeaways:
Sharing a car without a system makes you "the world's tiniest car rental…
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