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In the latest episode of the "Giant Robots On Tour" podcast, hosts Rémy Hannequin and Sami Birnbaum welcome Marc G. Gauthier, a solopreneur and startup coach, who shares his journey from software development to becoming the founder and developer of The Shadow Boxing App. Marc describes how his interest in software engineering began at a young age with QBasic and evolved through various leadership roles at companies like Drivy (now Getaround) and Back Market. His early passion for gaming led him to learn coding, and over time, he naturally transitioned into management roles, finding excitement in organizing and leading teams while maintaining his love for building products. During the episode, Marc discusses the challenges and intricacies of scaling startups, emphasizing the importance of balancing speed and reliability in software development. He recounts his experiences in leadership positions, where he faced the dual task of managing rapid team growth and maintaining software efficiency. Marc also shares insights into the startup ecosystem, noting that most startups struggle to achieve success due to a combination of market timing, team dynamics, and resource management. His own venture, The Shadow Boxing App, represents his attempt to return to hands-on coding while leveraging his extensive experience in startup coaching and advising. Marc also touches on the role of AI in the future of software development, expressing cautious optimism about its potential to augment human workflows and automate repetitive tasks. He advises current and aspiring developers to embrace AI as a tool to enhance their capabilities rather than a replacement for human ingenuity. Marc concludes by highlighting the importance of realistic expectations in the startup world and the need for continuous learning and adaptation in the ever-evolving tech landscape. Getaround (https://getaround.com/) Follow Getaround on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/getaround/), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/getaround), X (https://twitter.com/getaround), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/getaround), or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/getaround/). Back Market (https://www.backmarket.com/en-us) Follow Back Market on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/back-market/), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/BackMarketCom), X (https://x.com/backmarket), or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/backmarket). The Shadow Boxing App (https://shadowboxingapp.com/) Follow Marc Gauthier on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcggauthier/). Follow thoughtbot on X (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Transcript: RÉMY:  This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, the Giant Robots on Tour series coming to you from Europe, West Asia, and Africa, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Rémy Hannequin. SAMI: And I'm your other host, Sami Birnbaum. RÉMY: If you are wondering who we are, make sure you find the previous podcast where we introduced the Giant Robots on Tour series by throwing random icebreakers at each other. And find out that Jared likes it when someone takes the time to understand someone else's point of view. Joining us today is Marc G Gauthier, a Solopreneur and Startup Coach. Marc, you used to be VP of Engineering at Drivy, now known as Getaround, and also Director of Engineering at Back Market. You also have been a coach and advisor to a startup for over a decade. Currently, your current adventure is being the Founder and Developer of The Shadow Boxing App available on the Apple App Store. We always like to go back to the start with our guests. Everyone has a story, and we are interested in your journey. So, Marc, what led you into the world of software engineering in the first place? MARC: Hello. Well, happy to be here. And, yeah, I started getting into software development quite a long time ago. I actually learned software development with QBasic when I was something like seven. And, from there, I just kept on learning, learning, and learning and got into school for it, then worked in different startups, and then moved into more leadership position management. And I'm now, like, coaching people and building my own product. What do you want to get? Because it's broad. I've been doing it for quite a while. Like, I don't think the QBasic days are that insightful. The only thing I remember from that time is being confused by the print comment that I would expect it to print on my printer or something, but it didn't; it just printed on the screen. That's the only thing I have from back then. SAMI: Why at seven years old? And I'm taking you back too far, but at seven years old, I was probably collecting Pokémon cards and possibly like, you know, those football stickers. I don't know if you had the Panini stickers. MARC: Oh yeah, I was doing that as well. SAMI: But you were doing that as well. But then what drove you at that age? What do you think it was that made you think, I want to start learning to code, or play around with the computer, or get into tech? MARC: [laughs] Yeah. Well, I remember, back then, I really wanted a computer to play games. Like, I had a friend who had a computer. He was playing games, and I wanted to do that. So, I was asking my mom to have a computer, and she told me, "Yeah, you can have one." And she found a really old computer she bought from a neighbor, I think. But she told me like, "I don't know anything about it. So, you have to figure it out and set it up." And she just found someone to kind of help me. And this person told me to, like, take the computer apart. She taught me a bit of software development, and I kind of liked it. And I was always trying to change the games. Back then, it was way easier. You could just edit a sound file, and you would just edit the sound file in the game, so yeah, just learning like this. It wasn't really my intent to learn programming. It just kind of happened because I wanted to play video games really. SAMI: That's really cool. It's really interesting. Rémy, do you remember how...how did you first get...do you remember your first computer, Rémy? RÉMY: My first computer, I think I remember, but the first one I used it was, first, a very long time ago. I discovered that it was an Apple computer way, way later when I discovered what Apple was and what computers were actually. And I just remember playing SimCity 2000 on it, and it was amazing. And we had to, you know, cancel people from making phone calls while we were on the computer because of the internet and all the way we had to connect to the internet back then. And after that, just, I think, Windows 95 at home. Yeah, that's the only thing I can remember actually. Because I think I was lucky, so I got one quite early. And I don't really remember not having one, so I was quite lucky with that. And so, I was always kind of in the computer game without being too much [inaudible 05:02] [laughs]. SAMI: Yeah, I think that's similar to me as well. Like, it's interesting because my initial introduction to computers would have been watching my older brothers kind of play computer games and actually being told to get out the room, or like, you know, "We're busy now. Don't bother us." And then, what actually happened is when they left the room, I managed to play what they were playing, which was the first ever GTA. I don't know if anyone ever played this, but it is so cool if you look back on it. You could probably find emulators online, but it was, like, a bird's eye view, like, way of operating. And it was probably also that drive where you get frustrated on a computer because you want to do something, so, like you were saying, Marc, where you went to edit the sound files because you want to change something. You want to do something. I definitely think that is something which I felt as well is that frustration of I want to change this thing. And then, that kind of gets into well, how does it work? And if I know how it works, then I can probably change it. MARC: Yeah. And once you figure out how things work, it's also really exciting. Like, once you figure out the initialization file on Windows, like, you can edit, like, what level is unlocked right away. It's kind of cheat codes but not really. And there are some really fun ones. Like, I would edit sound files for racing games. And, usually, it's just a base sound file, and then they would pitch shift the sound to make it sound like an engine. So, if you record your voice, it's just really funny. RÉMY: So, Marc, you mentioned moving to management positions quite early. Do you remember what made you do this move? Was it for, like, a natural path in your career, or was it something you really wanted from the first part of your career as a developer? What happened at this moment? MARC: Yeah, that was not completely planned. Like, I don't think I really plan my career precisely. It's just something that happens. So, I joined Drivy after, like, I was already a software engineer for, like, five years at that point. I joined as a lead backend engineer. I did that for three years. And after three years, the company went from...I think there was, like, three software engineers to a dozen. There was a need for more structure, and the CTO, at the time so, Nicolas, wanted to focus more on products. And it was hard to do both, like do the product side, the design, the data, and do the engineering, the software, and so on. So, he wanted to get a bit away from software engineering and more into product. So, there was a gap in the organization. I was there. I was interested to try, and I was already doing some more things on the human side, so talking to people, organizing, internal communication. I kind of liked it. So, I was excited to try, give it a try. It was really interesting. I found that it was a different way to have an impact on the team. I just kept doing it. And my plan was to keep doing it until I'm bored with it. And I'm still not bored with it, even though you kind of miss just actually building the software yourselves, actually coding. So, that's also why I'm trying something different right now with my mobile app adventure. SAMI: Right. So, on the side, you've got this Shadow Boxing App, which, in my dedicated research, I downloaded and had a go with it. MARC: Did you actually try it, or did you just click around? SAMI: I did a proper workout, mate. I did. I put myself as, like, the absolute beginner. I did it on my MacBook Pro. I know it's built for iPad or iPhone, but it still worked amazingly well. And it kind of reminded me why I stopped doing boxing because it's hard work. MARC: [laughs] Yeah, it is. SAMI: It's not a gimmick this thing, right? So, it's like, the best way to describe it is it's essentially replacing if I was to go to the gym and have a trainer who's telling me kind of the moves to make or how to do it, then this kind of replaces that trainer. So, it's something you can do at home. It was really cool. I was surprised, actually. I thought, at the beginning, it's not going to be that interactive, or it won't actually be as hard or difficult as a workout, and it really was. So, it's, yeah, it was really cool, really interesting to try it. And going into that, you say you wanted to get back more into coding, and that's why you are doing this kind of, like, app on the side, or it allowed you to kind of do a bit more coding away from the people management. You've been involved in a lot of startups, and I actually often get...as consultants, when we work at thoughtbot, we get a lot of people who come with different startup ideas. When you look back at all the startups you've been involved with, do you think more startups are successful than those that fail? Or have you seen a lot of startups...actually, people come with these great ideas; they want to build this amazing product, but it's actually really hard to be a successful product? MARC: I think it's [inaudible 10:22] how to have the right idea, be at the right spot at the right time, build the right team, get enough momentum. I think most startups fail, and even startups that are successful often can be the result of a pivot. Like, I know companies that pivoted a bunch of times before finding any success. So, it's really hard actually...if I take my past four companies, only two are still alive. Like, the first two went under. Actually, there's even more companies that went under after I left. Yeah, it's just really hard to get anything off the ground. So, yeah, it's complicated, and I have a lot of respect for all the founders that go through it. For The Shadow Boxing App, I worked on it for the past three years, but I'm only working on it almost full-time for the past two months. And it was way safer. I could check the product-market fit. I could check if I enjoyed working on it. So, I guess it was easier. I had the luxury of having a full-time job. Building the app didn't take that much time. But to answer your question, I think, from my experience, most startups fail. And the ones that succeed it's kind of lightning in a bottle, or, like, there's a lot of factors that get into it. It's hard to replicate. A lot of people try to replicate some science, some ideas. They go, oh, we'll do this, and we'll do that. And we use this technique that Google uses and so on, but it's never that straightforward. SAMI: Yeah, I'm so happy you said that because I think it's a real brutal truth that I'd also say most of the startup projects that I've worked on probably have failed. Like, there's very few that actually make it. It's such a saturated market. And I think, I guess, in your role as advising startups, it's really good to come in with that honesty at the beginning and to say, "It's a big investment if you want to build something. Most people probably aren't successful." And then, when you work from that perspective, you can have, like, way more transparent and open discussions from the get-go. Because when you're outside of tech...and a lot of people have this idea of if I could just get an app to do my idea, I'm going to be the next Facebook. I'm going to be the next, you know, Amazon Marketplace. And it just kind of isn't like that. You've got these massive leaders in Facebook, Amazon, Google, Netflix. But below that, there's a lot of failures and a massively saturated market. So, yeah, just, it's so interesting that you also see it in a similar way. MARC: What I saw evolve in the past 10 years is the fact that people got more realistic with it. So, maybe 10 years ago, I would have people coming to me with just the most ridiculous idea, like, you know, I'll do Airbnb for cats. And really think, yeah, I just need a good idea, and that's it. But now I feel like people kind of understand that it's more complicated. There's way more resources online. People are more educated. They also see way more successes. Failures are also a bit more advertised. We saw a bunch of startups just go under. It feels like every month I get an email from a tool I used in the past saying, "Oh, we're shutting down," and so on. So, I think it's not as bad as 10 years ago where weekly I would have just people asking me, "I want to build this app," and the app would be just the most ridiculous thing or something that would be really smart, but it's really like, "Oh, I want to do, like, food delivery but better than what exists." It's like, yeah, that's a really good idea, but then you need...it's not only software. There's logistics. There's so much behind it that you don't seem to understand just yet. But, as a coach, so, what I'm doing is I'm helping startups that are usually before or after series A but not too large of startups just go to the next stage. And people are really aware of that and really worried. Like, they see money going down, market fit not necessarily being there. And they know, like, their company is at risk. And especially when you talk to founders, they're really aware that, you know, everything could be collapsing really quickly. If they make, like, three really bad decisions in a row, you're basically done. Obviously, it depends on the company, but yeah, people are more aware than before, especially nowadays where money is a bit harder to get. Let's say two years ago, there was infinite money, it felt like. Now it's more tight. People are more looking at the unit economics precisely. So, people need to be more realistic to succeed. RÉMY: What's the kind of recurrent struggle the startups you coach usually face? Apparently, it quite changed in the past decade, but maybe what are the current struggles they face? MARC: It really depends. It's kind of broad. But, usually, it would be, let's say, a startup after their first round of funding, let's say, if you take startups that are looking for funding. So, you usually have a group of founders, two to four, usually two or three, that are really entrepreneurs that want to bootstrap some things. They're builders. They're hacking things together, and they're really excited about the product. And, suddenly, fast forward a few years, they're starting to be successful, and they have to lead a team of, you know, like, 50 people, 100 people, and they weren't prepared for that. They were really prepared to, like, build software. Like, especially the CTOs, they are usually really great hackers. They can, like, create a product really quickly. But, suddenly, they need to manage 30 engineers, and it's completely different, and they're struggling with that. So, that's a common problem for CTOs. And then, it creates a bunch of problems. Like, you would have CEOs and CTOs not agreeing on how to approach the strategy, how to approach building a thing. What should be the methodology? Something that worked with 3 engineers around the table doesn't work with 50 engineers distributed in 5 countries. And if it's your first time being a CTO, and often founders of early-stage startups are first-time CTOs, it can be really hard to figure out. MID-ROLL AD: Are your engineers spending too much time on DevOps and maintenance issues when you need them on new features? We know maintaining your own servers can be costly and that it's easy for spending creep to sneak in when your team isn't looking. By delegating server management, maintenance, and security to thoughtbot and our network of service partners, you can get 24x7 support from our team of experts, all for less than the cost of one in-house engineer. Save time and money with our DevOps and Maintenance service. Find out more at: tbot.io/devops. RÉMY: In your past companies, so you've been VP and CTO. So, in your opinion, what's the best a VP or a CTO can bring to a scaling startup? What are your best tips to share? MARC: I guess it depends [laughs], obviously, like, depending on the stage of the company, the size of the company. For instance, when I was at Drivy, at some point, the most important thing was scaling the team hiring, and so on. But, at some point, we got acquired by Getaround, and the priorities got shifted. It was more like, okay, how do you figure out this new setup for the company and the team? Like, what is good? What is bad? How do you communicate with the team? How do you get people to stay motivated when everything is changing? How do you make sure you make the right decisions? And then, when I joined Back Market, Back Market when I joined, I had a team of a bit less than 12 engineers reporting directly to me. And after a bit more than a year, I had 60, and I hired most of them. So, here the challenge was just scaling insanely fast. Like, the company is really successful. Like, Back Market is selling refurbished electronics in a mission to, you know, provide a viable alternative to buying new electronics. So, it's basically, do you want a smartphone that is both cheaper and more ecologically viable? And most people would say yes to that. So, a company is insanely successful, but it's really hard to scale. So, at that point, the role was, okay, how do you make sure you scale as well as possible with a lot of pressure while still leaving the team in a state that they're able to still build software? Because it's just really chaotic. Like, you can't, like, 5X your team without chaos. But how do you minimize that but still go really fast? SAMI: Yeah. So, not only did I try that Shadow App. I actually went on that Backup website. What's it called? It's not called Backup. What's it called again? MARC: Back Market. SAMI: Back Market. Thank you. Yeah, it was really cool. I checked my old iPhone SE from 2020, which I've kept for about...over three years, I've had this iPhone. And they said they would give me $72 for it, which was really cool. So, it sounds like a really cool idea. MARC: That's something we worked on, which is, basically, if you have any old phones in your drawer, it's a really bad spot for them. And so, there's a service. You go on the website. You say, "I have this, I have that; I have this, I have that." And either we buy it from you, or we just take it away from you, and we recycle them, which is much better than just having them collect dust. SAMI: Yeah, no, it's a great idea. What interested me when you were speaking about kind of these different positions that you've been in, I was almost expecting you to talk about maybe, like, a technical challenge or code complexity difficulty. But, actually, what you've described is more people problems. And how do we scale with regards to people, and how do we keep people motivated? So, I guess using that experience, and this might be counterintuitive to what a lot of people think, but what do you think is the hardest thing about software development? I know there could be many things. But if you had to pick something that is the most difficult, and maybe we can all have an answer to what we think this is, but starting with you, Marc, what do you think is the hardest thing about software development then? MARC: What I saw is how do you build something that works for enough time to bring value to the customers? So, it's easy to hack something together pretty quickly and get it in front of people, but then it might not be reliable. It might break down. Or you could decide to build something perfect and spend, like, two years on it and then ship it, and then it's really stable, but maybe it's not what people want. And finding this balance between shipping something fast, but shipping something that is reliable enough for what you're building. Obviously, if you're building a health care system, you will have more, like, the bar will be higher than if you build, like, Airbnb for cats. Finding this balance and adjusting as you go is really hard. So, for instance, when do you introduce caching? Because, obviously, caching is hard to do right. If you don't do it, your site will be slow, which can be okay for a time. But then if you introduce it too late, then it's really hard to just retrofit into whatever you already have. So, finding the right moment to introduce a new practice, introduce a new technology is tricky. And then, like, I talked a lot about the people, and it's also because I spent quite a bit of time in leadership position. But, at the end of the day, it will be the people writing the code that gets the software to exist and run. So, having people aligned and agreeing on the vision is also key because unless I'm the only developer on the project, I can't really make all decisions on things that are going to get built. So, figuring out how to get people motivated, interested in just building in the same direction is really important. It's really easy. Like, one thing with Drivy, when I was there, that was really fun to see, like, many people have this reaction, especially the more senior people joining the company. They would see the engineering team, and they were really, really surprised by how small it was because we were being really, really efficient. Like, we were paying really close attention to what we would work on. So, kind of technology we would introduce would be quite conservative on both to really be able to deliver what is the most important. So, we were able to do a lot with, honestly, not a lot of people. And I think this is a great mark for success. You don't need a thousand people to build your software if you ask the right question, like, "Do I need to build X or Y?" and always having these discussions. RÉMY: What's your opinion on that, Sami? SAMI: Yeah, I guess it changes. Like, for example, today, the hardest thing about software development was just getting Jira to work. That has literally ruined my whole day. But I've found, for me, what I find is the most difficult thing to do is making code resilient to change. What I mean by that is writing code that's easy to change. And a lot of that, I guess, we try to work on at thoughtbot, as consultants, is following kind of design principles and best practices and certain design patterns that really make the code easy to change. Because that, I think, when I'm writing code is the biggest challenge. And where I feel when I'm working with our clients one of the biggest things they can invest in, which is difficult because there's not a lot of visibility around it or metrics, is ensuring that code that's written is easy to change because, at some point, it will. And I've also worked on systems which are bigger, and when you can't change them, conversations start happening about the cost of change. Do we rewrite it from the ground up again? And that opens a whole different can of worms. So, that, for me, I think, is definitely one of the hardest things. How about yourself, Rémy? RÉMY: I don't know about the most difficult. I mean, there are many things difficult. But I remember something that I had to put extra effort, so maybe it was one of the most difficult for me. When I started being a consultant, when I joined thoughtbot was to understand what's the boundary between executing and giving an advice? So, basically, I discovered that when you're a consultant, but it works also when you're a developer in a team, you know, you're not just only the one who is going to write the code. You're supposed to be also someone with expertise, experience to share it and to make the project and the team benefit from it. So, at some point, I discovered that I should not just listen to what the client would say they want. Obviously, that's what they want, but it's more interesting and more difficult to understand why they want it and why they actually need, which could be different from what they want. So, it's a whole different conversation to discover together what is actually the necessary thing to build, and with your expertise and experience, try to find the thing that is going to be the most efficient, reliable, and making both the client and the customers happy. MARC: Yeah. And as software engineers, it's really easy to get excited about a problem and just go, "Oh, I could solve it this way." But then you need to step back and go, "Well, maybe it doesn't need fixing, or we should do something completely different." At some point, I was working with a customer service organization. In their workflows, they had to go on, let's say, five different pages and click on the button to get something to do one action. And so, what they asked for is to have those five buttons on one single page, and so, they could go, click, click, click, click, click. But after looking at it, what they needed is just automation of that, not five buttons on the page. But it's really easy to go, oh, and we could make those buttons, like, kind of generic and have a button creator thing and make it really fancy. When you step back, you go, oh, they shouldn't be clicking that many buttons. SAMI: Yeah, that makes so much sense because just in that example...I can't remember where I read this, but every line of code you write has to be maintained. So, in that example where you've got five buttons, you're kind of maintaining probably a lot more code than when you've got the single button, which goes to, I don't know, a single action or a method that will handle kind of all the automation for you. And that's also, you know, driving at simplicity. So, sometimes, like, you see this really cool problem, and there's a really cool way to solve it. But if you can solve it, you mentioned, like, being conservative with the type of frameworks maybe you used in a previous company, like, solve it in the most simple way, and you'll thank yourself later. Because, at some point, you have to come back to it, and maintain it, change it. Yeah, so it makes a lot of sense. And, Marc, you said you started when you were 7, which is really young. Through that amount of time, you've probably seen massive changes in the way websites look, feel, and how they work. In that time, what's the biggest change you actually think you've seen? MARC: The biggest thing I saw is, when I started, internet didn't exist or at least wasn't available. Like, I remember being at school and the teacher would ask like, "How many people have a computer at home?" And we'd be like, two or three people. So, people didn't have internet until I was like 14, 15, I'd say. So, that's the biggest one. But, let's say, after it started, they just got more complicated. Like, so, the complexity is getting crazy. Like, I remember, at some point, where I saw I think it was called Aviary. It was basically Photoshop in the browser, and I was just insanely impressed by just the fact that you could do this in the browser. And, nowadays, like, you've got Figma, and you've got so many tools that are insanely impressive. Back then, it was just text, images, and that's it. I actually wrote a blog post a few years ago about how I used to build websites just using frames. So, I don't know if you're familiar with just frames, but I didn't really know how to do divs. So, I would just do frames because that's what I understood back then, again, little kid. But it was kind of working. You were dealing with IE 5 or, like, I remember, like, professionally fixing bugs for IE 5.5 or, like, AOL, like, 9, something ridiculous like this. So, building a website just got way easier but also way more complicated, if that makes sense. Like, it's way easier to do most things. For instance, I don't know, like, 20 years ago, you wanted a rounded corner; you would have to create images and kind of overlay them in a weird way. It would break in many cases. Nowadays, you want rounded corners? That's a non-topic. But now you need, like, offline capabilities of your website. And, in a lot of cases, there's really complex features that are expected from users. So, the bar is getting raised to crazy levels. SAMI: Yeah, I always wonder about this. Like, when you look at how the internet used to be and how people develop for the internet, and, like you're saying, now it's more complex but easier to do some things. I don't know if as developers we're making things harder or easier for ourselves. Like, if you look at the amount of technology someone needs to know to get started, it grows constantly. To do this, you have to add this framework, and you need to have this library, and maybe even a different language, and then, to even host something now, the amount of technologies you need to know. Do you think we're making things harder for ourselves, or do you think easier? MARC: Well, I guess there's always back and forth, like, regarding complexity. So, things will get really, really complex, and then someone will go, "Well, let's stop that and simplify." That's why, like, I'm seeing some people not rejecting React and so on, but going a simpler route like Rails has options like this. There's people using HTMX, which is really simple. So, just going back to something simpler. I think a lot of the really complex solutions also come from the fact that now we have massive teams building websites, and you need that complexity to be able to handle the team size. But it's kind of, then you need more people to handle the complexity, and it's just getting crazy. Yeah, honestly, I don't know. I'm seeing a lot of things that feel too complex for...like, the technology feels really complicated to accomplish some things that should be simple or at least feel simple. But, at the same time, there are things that got so simple that it's ridiculous like just accepting payment. I remember, like, if you wanted to accept payment on a site, it would be months of work, and now it takes a minute. You just plug in Stripe, and it works. And it's often cheaper than what it used to be. So, it's kind of...or deploying. You mentioned deploying can be really hard. Well, you don't need to have a physical server in your room just eating your place up to have your website, your personal website running. You just push it to Vercel, or Heroku, or whatever, or just a static page on S3. So, this got simpler, but then, yeah, you can get it to be so much more crazy. So, if you host your static website on S3, fairly simple. But then if you try to understand permissions on S3, then, you know, it's over. RÉMY: I don't know if it's really in the path of our discussion. I just wanted to ask you, so this is the on tour series, where we...so, usually, the Giant Robots podcast used to be a little bit more American-centric, and this on tour is moving back to the other side of the Atlantic with, again, Europe, West Asia, and Africa. You've been part of a company, Drivy, which expanded from France to neighboring countries in Europe. What could you tell our listeners about how to expand a business internationally? MARC: That's a tough question, especially in Europe. Because I know looking from the outside, like, if you're from the U.S. and you look at Europe, it feels like, you know, a uniform continent, but really, it's very different. Like, just payment methods are different. Culture is very different. For instance, when I was working at Back Market in France, one of the branding aspects of Back Market was its humor. Like, we would be making a lot of jokes on the website, and it would work really well in France. Like, people would love the brand. But then you expand to other countries, and they just don't find that funny at all. Like, it's not helping at all, and they're expecting a different tone of voice. So, it's not just, okay, I need to translate my own page; it's I need to internationalize for this market. I guess my advice is do it country by country. Sometimes I see companies going like, oh, we opened in 20 different countries, and you go, how even do you do that? And spend some time understanding how people are using your product or, like, a similar product locally because you would be surprised by what you learn. Sometimes there's different capabilities. For instance, when Drivy went to the UK, there's so much more you can learn. There's the government database that you can look up, and it really helps with managing risk. If people are known to steal cars, you can kind of figure it out. I'm simplifying a bit, but you can use this. You don't have that in France because we just don't have this solution. But if you go to Nordic countries, for instance, they have way more electric vehicles, so maybe the product doesn't work as well. So, it's really understanding what's different locally and being willing to invest, to adapt. Because if you go, okay, I'm going to open in the Netherlands but you don't adopt the payment methods that are used in the Netherlands, you might as well not open at all. So, it's either you do it properly and you kind of figure out what properly means for your product, or you postpone, and you do it well later. Like, right now, I'm struggling a bit with my app because it's open. So, it's on the App Store, so it's open globally. And it's a SaaS, so it's simpler, but I struggle with language. So, it's in French and English. I spoke both of this language, obviously, French better than English. But I think I'm doing okay with both. But I also built it in Spanish because I speak some Spanish fairly poorly, and I wanted to try to hit a different market like the Mexican market that are doing boxing quite a lot. But the quality doesn't seem there. Like, I don't have the specific boxing lingo, so I'm contemplating just rolling it back, like, removing the Spanish language until I get it really well, maybe with a translator dedicated to it that knows boxing in Spanish. Because I work with translators that would translate, but they don't really know that, yeah, like a jab in boxing. In Spanish, they might also say, "Jab." They won't translate it to, like, [inaudible 38:31]. SAMI: Yeah. At thoughtbot, we have one of our clients they wanted to release their app also internationally. And so, we had also kind of a lot of these problems. We even had to handle...so, in some languages, you go from left to right, right to left. So, that kind of also changed a lot of the way you would design things is mainly for people who are going from left to right. I mean, that's thinking kind of more Europe, U.S.-centric. And then, you could be releasing your app into a different country where they read the other direction. So, yeah, a lot of this stuff is really interesting, especially the culture, like you're saying. Do they find this humor funny? And then, how do they translate things? Which, in my head, I think, could you use AI to do that. Which is a nice segue into, like, the mandatory question about AI, which we can't let you go until we ask you. MARC: [laughs] SAMI: So, okay, obviously, I'm going to ask you about your thoughts on AI and where you think we're headed. But I've seen something interesting, which I don't know if this is something that resonates with you as well. I've seen a bit of a trend where the more experienced developers or more senior developers I talk to seem to be a bit more calm and less concerned. Whereas I would consider myself as less experienced, and I feel, like, kind of more anxious, more nervous, more jumping on the bandwagon sort of feeling of keeping an eye on it. So, I guess, with your experience, what are your thoughts on AI? Where do you think we are headed? MARC: That's a big question, and it feels like it's changing month to month. It feels way more interesting than other trends before. Like, I'm way more excited about the capabilities of AI than, like, NFTs or stuff like this. I'm actively using AI tooling in my app. I was using some AI at Back Market. So, it's interesting. There's a bunch of things you can be doing. Personally, I don't think that it's going to, like, make programming irrelevant, for instance. It will just change a bit how you will build things just like...so, we talked about what changed in the past. For instance, at some point, you would need a team of people moving around physical computers and servers and just hooking them up to be able to have a website. But now, most people would just use a cloud provider. So, all those people either they work for the cloud provider, or they're out of a job. But really what happened is most shifted into something different, and then we focused on something different. Instead of learning how to handle a farm of servers, we learned how to, I don't know, handle more concurrency in our models. And I think when I look back, I feel like, technically, maybe, I don't know, 70%, 80% of what I learned is now useless. Like, I spent years getting really good at handling Internet Explorer as a web developer. Now it's just gone, so it's just gone forever. And it feels like there's some practice that we're having right now that will be gone forever thanks to AI or because of AI, depending on how you look at it. But then there'll be new things to do. I'm not sure yet what it will be, but it will create new opportunities. There are some things that look a bit scary, like, or creepy. But I'm not worried about jobs or things like this. I'm a bit concerned about people learning programming right now because, yeah, there's a lot of hand-holding, and there's a lot of tools that you have to pay to get access to this hand-holding. So, if you're a student right now in school learning programming and your school is giving you some AI assistant, like Copilot or whatever, and this assistant is really good, but suddenly it goes away because you're not paying anymore, or, like, the model change, if you don't know how to code anymore, then it's a problem. Or maybe you're not struggling as much. And you're not digging deep enough, and so you're learning slower. And you're being a bit robbed of the opportunity to learn by the AI. So, it's just giving you the solution. But it's just, like, the way I use it right now, so I don't have an assistant enabled, but I usually have, like, a ChatGPT window open somewhere. It's more like a better Stack Overflow or a more precise Stack Overflow. And that helps me a lot, and that's really convenient. Like, right now, I'm building mostly using Swift and Swift UI, but I'm mainly a Ruby and JavaScript developer. So, I'm struggling a lot and being able to ask really simple questions. I had a case just this morning where I asked how to handle loading of images without using the assets folder in Xcode. I just couldn't figure it out, but it's really simple. So, it was able to tell me, like, right away, like, five options on how to do it, and I was able to pick the one that would fit. So, yeah, really interesting, but yeah, I'm not that worried. The only part I would be worried is if people are learning right now and relying way too much on AI. RÉMY: Well, at least it's positive for our job. Thank you for making us believe in a bright future, Marc. MARC: [laughs] RÉMY: All right. Thank you so much, Marc, for joining us. It was a real pleasure. Before we leave, Marc, if you want to be contacted, if people want to get a hold of you, how can you be contacted? MARC: There's two ways: either LinkedIn, look up Marc G Gauthier. Like, the middle initial is important because Marc Gauthier is basically John Smith in France. My website, which is marcgg.com. You can find my blog. You can find a way to hire me as a coach or advisor. That's the best way to reach out to me. RÉMY: Thank you so much. And thank you, Sami, as well. You can subscribe to the show and find notes along with a complete transcript for this episode at giantrobots.fm. If you have any questions or comments, you can email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. You can find me on social media as rhannequin. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. Thanks for listening, and see you next time.  AD: Did you know thoughtbot has a referral program? If you introduce us to someone looking for a design or development partner, we will compensate you if they decide to work with us. More info on our website at: tbot.io/referral. Or you can email us at: referrals@thoughtbot.com with any questions.

"If you can build your company without raising money, do it because then you're in control. There's this idea that you're really cool if you've got some venture money. And I want to say the coolest is if you own the whole thing yourself." Robin Chase, Co-Founder of Zipcar, GoLoco, Buzzcar, Veniam, and NUMO.In this episode of "Open for Business," we speak to serial entrepreneur and transportation innovator Robin Chase. Robin is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest car sharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a peer-to-peer car sharing service in France (now merged with Drivy); and GoLoco, an online ride sharing community. She is also co-founder of Veniam, a network company connecting vehicles to the cloud. More recently she established NUMO, a nonprofit aimed at leveraging new urban mobility technologies for sustainable city development.From starting Zipcar back in 2000, Robin has decades of experience in revolutionizing urban mobility and entrepreneurship, and she shares her unique insights and the key lessons she's learned along the way.Among other things, Robin discusses:Her motivation for diving into urban mobility and the challenges she faced along the way.The importance of timing and being at the right place at the right time in business.The concept of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and its critical role in launching successful ventures.Navigating the complex dynamics of fundraising and maintaining control over your company.Her vision for the future of transportation, including the rise of electric bikes and smaller vehicles.There's a lot to learn from Robin's experiences over the last 24 years, including practical advice on how to approach entrepreneurship, the importance of innovation, and how to adapt to ever-changing market conditions.

21 formas de ganar dinero online fácil y rápidoAntes de empezar el episodio de hoy te traigo una herramienta de SEO gratuita que te ayudará a subir posiciones en Google.Podrás detectar fallos de tu web, revisar enlaces entrantes y salientes, realizar un análisis de palabras clave, analizar a la competencia y configurar alertas.Sólo tienes que entrar en https://borjagiron.com/ahrefs y empezar a usar la que posiblemente sea la mejor herramienta de SEO gratuita del mercado. Recuerda, borjagiron.com/ahrefs Te dejo el enlace en la descripción.Mejor hosting: HostingerPara crear tu web, blog o tienda online al mejor precioCómo comprar Hosting y Dominio con Hostinger al mejor preciohttps://triunfacontublog.com/mejor-hosting-wordpress/Consigue descuento: https://borjagiron.com/hostingerMuy buenas y bienvenido al podcast “Marketing Digital”, soy Borja Girón y cada martes aprenderás todo lo necesario para conseguir más clientes, visitas e ingresos en tu negocio online. Recuerda unirte a la Comunidad Emprendedores desde: https://borjagiron.com/comunidad y podrás acceder a las sesiones de Mastermind cada lunes conmigo y el resto de emprendedores, al podcast secreto, a los retos y las categorías dentro del grupo de Telegram sobre Instagram, RRSS, Finanzas, criptomonedas, salud, Inteligencia Artificial, marketing, podcasting, productividad y todo lo necesario para hacer crecer tu negocio.Y ahora sí…¿Estás preparado? ¿Estás preparada? ¡Comenzamos!+65 formas de ganar dinero fácil y rápido: https://www.borjagiron.com/internet/formas-ganar-dinero-facil-rapido/Cómo conseguir dinero rápido:1. Alquila una o varias habitaciones de tu casa (Gana entre 300€ y 1500€/mes): Una de las mejores formas de ganar dinero fácil y rápido. Puedes hacer unas buenas fotos y anunciarlo en Idealista, Fotocasa, Badi o Airbnb.2. Vende tu casa (Gana entre 80.000€ y 300.000€): Posiblemente la forma más rápida de ganar mucho dinero. Usa los servicios de la agencia Belion para vender la casa antes y a un mayor precio (en el formulario pon que has sido referido por el colaborador número 5002).3. Busca personas que vendan su casa (Gana entre 600€ y 6000€ al mes): Si conoces personas que vendan su casa o puedes llegar a estas personas hazte colaborador de la agencia Belion y te darán una comisión por cada venta que llegue referenciada por tí (en el formulario pon que has sido referido por el colaborador número 5002).4. Alquila tu coche (Gana unos 300€/mes): Gracias a Getaround (antes Drivy) puedes alquilar tu coche por horas o días y ganar dinero. Incluso con el sistema de apertura desde el móvil no es necesario que tú intervengas. Es como montar tu propio Zity, Wible, Emov o Car2go.5. Comparte coche (Gana unos 150€/mes): Gracias a Blablacar puedes compartir tu coche en tus viajes y rutas al trabajo y ganar dinero compartiendo coche.6. Alquila tu autocaravana (Gana hasta 10.000€/año): Desde indiecampers.es puedes alquilar tu autocaravana y ganar bastante dinero mientras no la usas.7. Trabaja con tu coche, camión o moto (Gana unos 1500€/mes): Puedes trabajar para Uber o Cabify transportando personas o repartiendo paquetes con Amazon Flex o Seur. También puedes ser repartidor de comida con Glovo o Uber Eats. Incluso puedes ofrecer servicio de mudanzas.8. Pon publicidad en tu coche (Gana unos 300€/mes): Puedes registrar tu coche para poner anuncios en webs como Impactodual, Wrapify, Serbecar o Carvertise (en inglés).9. Alquila tu plaza de garaje (Gana unos 50€/mes): Si tienes una plaza de garaje puedes alquilarla desde Idealista, Fotocasa. También por horas desde con Elparking, Parkfy o poniendo cartel en la zona.10. Alquila tu piscina (Gana unos 300€/mes): Puedes alquilar tu piscina desde Swimply.com.11. Cambia de hipoteca (Gana unos 100€/mes): Aquí tienes el comparador de hipotecas de Idealista. Y es que en muchas ocasiones estamos pagando más de lo que debemos. Es importante también tener en cuenta el tiempo y los costes de cancelaciones además de leer bien la letra pequeña.12. Vende cosas que no uses (Gana unos 50€/mes): Vende juegos, libros, aparatos electrónicos con Wallapop, Vibbo o tu ropa con Vinted.13. Invierte en bolsa (Gana unos 500€/mes): Compra y vende acciones en distintos mercados usando Trading. Conviértete en Broker. Para esto debes saber mucho sobre finanzas e inversiones ya que si no tienes conocimientos avanzados perderás el dinero. Puedes usar plataformas como InteractiveBrokers, Degiro o Revolut. Cuidado con las apps de Trading que usan Forex, CFD apalancados u opciones binarias y en realidad no compras las acciones.14. Compra venta de dominios y webs (Gana unos 300€/año): Compra y vende dominios en Sedo.com o Flippa.com. Para comprar dominios baratos te recomiendo Namecheap.15. 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Vende camisetas o diseños online (Gana unos 100€/mes): Crea tus propios diseños de camisetas, logos, tarjetas, pósters y véndelos con Spreadshirt. También puedes vender tus manualidades en webs como Etsy y crear tus diseños en 99designs, Designcrowd o Zazzle.19. Vende fotos y vídeos online (Gana unos 300€/mes): Si te gusta la fotografía puedes vender fotos online y ganar dinero con webs como Shutterstock.20. Usar Marketing de afiliados (Gana unos 500€/mes): Gana dinero recomendando productos, servicios, cursos, libros, etc. Te llevas una comisión por venta a través de un enlace especial para hacer el seguimiento. Puedes recomendar estos productos o servicios en artículos de tu blog, en YouTube, usando email marketing, en grupos de WhatsApp o Telegram… es decir, usando técnicas de marketing digital sin hacer spam. Muchas webs como Amazon, Booking o Hotmart ofrecen un programa de afiliados para darte de alta y recomendar un servicio, producto, curso, hotel y llevarte una comisión por venta. Tengo una lección en mis cursos de Triunfacontublog para que aprendas a usarlo. Existen webs como Tradedoubler o Awin que recopilan muchas empresas que ofrecen marketing de afiliados para tenerlas todas en un único lugar.21. Gana dinero con Instagram (Gana unos 300€/mes): Sin necesidad de tener productos o servicios propios. Hoy en día Instagram te paga por hacer directos (hasta 150$ por cada directo) o por añadir anuncios a tus vídeos de IGTV. También puedes usar un método muy efectivo y fácil de aplicar gracias a esta Masterclass.Comunidad Emprendedores Triunfers: https://borjagiron.com/comunidadRecuerda suscribirte al podcast para no perderte el resto de noticias, novedades, trucos y tendencias del Marketing. Si quieres seguir escuchando estos episodios compártelo, dale a me gusta, deja 5 estrellas o comenta el episodio.También puedes acceder a mis cursos de Marketing Digital desde https://triunfacontublog.com Recibe mis secretos para emprender con éxito cada día en tu email: https://borjagiron.com/newsletterSoy Borja Girón, has escuchado el podcast Marketing Digital, nos escuchamos en el próximo episodio.

21 formas de ganar dinero online fácil y rápidoAntes de empezar el episodio de hoy te traigo una herramienta de SEO gratuita que te ayudará a subir posiciones en Google.Podrás detectar fallos de tu web, revisar enlaces entrantes y salientes, realizar un análisis de palabras clave, analizar a la competencia y configurar alertas.Sólo tienes que entrar en https://borjagiron.com/ahrefs y empezar a usar la que posiblemente sea la mejor herramienta de SEO gratuita del mercado. Recuerda, borjagiron.com/ahrefs Te dejo el enlace en la descripción.Mejor hosting: HostingerPara crear tu web, blog o tienda online al mejor precioCómo comprar Hosting y Dominio con Hostinger al mejor preciohttps://triunfacontublog.com/mejor-hosting-wordpress/Consigue descuento: https://borjagiron.com/hostingerMuy buenas y bienvenido al podcast “Marketing Digital”, soy Borja Girón y cada martes aprenderás todo lo necesario para conseguir más clientes, visitas e ingresos en tu negocio online. Recuerda unirte a la Comunidad Emprendedores desde: https://borjagiron.com/comunidad y podrás acceder a las sesiones de Mastermind cada lunes conmigo y el resto de emprendedores, al podcast secreto, a los retos y las categorías dentro del grupo de Telegram sobre Instagram, RRSS, Finanzas, criptomonedas, salud, Inteligencia Artificial, marketing, podcasting, productividad y todo lo necesario para hacer crecer tu negocio.Y ahora sí…¿Estás preparado? ¿Estás preparada? ¡Comenzamos!+65 formas de ganar dinero fácil y rápido: https://www.borjagiron.com/internet/formas-ganar-dinero-facil-rapido/Cómo conseguir dinero rápido:1. Alquila una o varias habitaciones de tu casa (Gana entre 300€ y 1500€/mes): Una de las mejores formas de ganar dinero fácil y rápido. Puedes hacer unas buenas fotos y anunciarlo en Idealista, Fotocasa, Badi o Airbnb.2. Vende tu casa (Gana entre 80.000€ y 300.000€): Posiblemente la forma más rápida de ganar mucho dinero. Usa los servicios de la agencia Belion para vender la casa antes y a un mayor precio (en el formulario pon que has sido referido por el colaborador número 5002).3. Busca personas que vendan su casa (Gana entre 600€ y 6000€ al mes): Si conoces personas que vendan su casa o puedes llegar a estas personas hazte colaborador de la agencia Belion y te darán una comisión por cada venta que llegue referenciada por tí (en el formulario pon que has sido referido por el colaborador número 5002).4. Alquila tu coche (Gana unos 300€/mes): Gracias a Getaround (antes Drivy) puedes alquilar tu coche por horas o días y ganar dinero. Incluso con el sistema de apertura desde el móvil no es necesario que tú intervengas. Es como montar tu propio Zity, Wible, Emov o Car2go.5. Comparte coche (Gana unos 150€/mes): Gracias a Blablacar puedes compartir tu coche en tus viajes y rutas al trabajo y ganar dinero compartiendo coche.6. Alquila tu autocaravana (Gana hasta 10.000€/año): Desde indiecampers.es puedes alquilar tu autocaravana y ganar bastante dinero mientras no la usas.7. Trabaja con tu coche, camión o moto (Gana unos 1500€/mes): Puedes trabajar para Uber o Cabify transportando personas o repartiendo paquetes con Amazon Flex o Seur. También puedes ser repartidor de comida con Glovo o Uber Eats. Incluso puedes ofrecer servicio de mudanzas.8. Pon publicidad en tu coche (Gana unos 300€/mes): Puedes registrar tu coche para poner anuncios en webs como Impactodual, Wrapify, Serbecar o Carvertise (en inglés).9. Alquila tu plaza de garaje (Gana unos 50€/mes): Si tienes una plaza de garaje puedes alquilarla desde Idealista, Fotocasa. También por horas desde con Elparking, Parkfy o poniendo cartel en la zona.10. Alquila tu piscina (Gana unos 300€/mes): Puedes alquilar tu piscina desde Swimply.com.11. Cambia de hipoteca (Gana unos 100€/mes): Aquí tienes el comparador de hipotecas de Idealista. Y es que en muchas ocasiones estamos pagando más de lo que debemos. Es importante también tener en cuenta el tiempo y los costes de cancelaciones además de leer bien la letra pequeña.12. Vende cosas que no uses (Gana unos 50€/mes): Vende juegos, libros, aparatos electrónicos con Wallapop, Vibbo o tu ropa con Vinted.13. Invierte en bolsa (Gana unos 500€/mes): Compra y vende acciones en distintos mercados usando Trading. Conviértete en Broker. Para esto debes saber mucho sobre finanzas e inversiones ya que si no tienes conocimientos avanzados perderás el dinero. Puedes usar plataformas como InteractiveBrokers, Degiro o Revolut. Cuidado con las apps de Trading que usan Forex, CFD apalancados u opciones binarias y en realidad no compras las acciones.14. Compra venta de dominios y webs (Gana unos 300€/año): Compra y vende dominios en Sedo.com o Flippa.com. Para comprar dominios baratos te recomiendo Namecheap.15. Crea apps o juegos (Gana unos 300€/año): Puedes crear apps desde Goodbarber o juegos. Herramientas como Stencyl, Gdevelop o Gamemaker permiten crear juegos para móvil sin programación. Otras como Unity permiten crear juegos y monetizar con publicidad directamente. Debes tener conocimientos previos pero hoy en día es más fácil que nunca e incluso con distintas herramientas no es necesario tener conocimientos de programación.16. Trabaja de guía turístico o guía local (Gana unos 700€/mes): Puedes registrarte en Freetour o Viator y empezar a enseñar tu ciudad y ofrecer planes ganando dinero.17. Ofrece experiencias online (Gana unos 500€/mes): Ante la nueva situación en la que nos encontramos la empresa Airbnb decidió adaptarse rápidamente lanzando un nuevo servicio de experiencias online. Explica cómo organizar una cena navideña, haz pasta con la abuela en directo o haz que la gente resuelva el misterio de una Escape Room.18. Vende camisetas o diseños online (Gana unos 100€/mes): Crea tus propios diseños de camisetas, logos, tarjetas, pósters y véndelos con Spreadshirt. También puedes vender tus manualidades en webs como Etsy y crear tus diseños en 99designs, Designcrowd o Zazzle.19. Vende fotos y vídeos online (Gana unos 300€/mes): Si te gusta la fotografía puedes vender fotos online y ganar dinero con webs como Shutterstock.20. Usar Marketing de afiliados (Gana unos 500€/mes): Gana dinero recomendando productos, servicios, cursos, libros, etc. Te llevas una comisión por venta a través de un enlace especial para hacer el seguimiento. Puedes recomendar estos productos o servicios en artículos de tu blog, en YouTube, usando email marketing, en grupos de WhatsApp o Telegram… es decir, usando técnicas de marketing digital sin hacer spam. Muchas webs como Amazon, Booking o Hotmart ofrecen un programa de afiliados para darte de alta y recomendar un servicio, producto, curso, hotel y llevarte una comisión por venta. Tengo una lección en mis cursos de Triunfacontublog para que aprendas a usarlo. Existen webs como Tradedoubler o Awin que recopilan muchas empresas que ofrecen marketing de afiliados para tenerlas todas en un único lugar.21. Gana dinero con Instagram (Gana unos 300€/mes): Sin necesidad de tener productos o servicios propios. Hoy en día Instagram te paga por hacer directos (hasta 150$ por cada directo) o por añadir anuncios a tus vídeos de IGTV. También puedes usar un método muy efectivo y fácil de aplicar gracias a esta Masterclass.Comunidad Emprendedores Triunfers: https://borjagiron.com/comunidadRecuerda suscribirte al podcast para no perderte el resto de noticias, novedades, trucos y tendencias del Marketing. Si quieres seguir escuchando estos episodios compártelo, dale a me gusta, deja 5 estrellas o comenta el episodio.También puedes acceder a mis cursos de Marketing Digital desde https://triunfacontublog.com Recibe mis secretos para emprender con éxito cada día en tu email: https://borjagiron.com/newsletterSoy Borja Girón, has escuchado el podcast Marketing Digital, nos escuchamos en el próximo episodio.

Après avoir co-fondé Drivy (un système de location de voitures entre particuliers), Nicolas Mondollot s'est lancé dans un projet d'utilité publique pour tout bon Bleausard, du “Véritable débris” au “Vénéré Maître, très pure lumière du rocher”. Si vous le croisez au fin fond d'un secteur oublié, il y a de fortes chances qu'il soit là pour cartographier les blocs, un travail fastidieux et minutieux qui l'occupe depuis bientôt 2 ans. 70 secteurs sur 200 sont aujourd'hui répertoriés et mis à disposition gratuitement sur son appli géo-localisée Boolder (iPhone, Android et navigateurs). Nous suivre sur

2ème extrait de l'épisode 97 avec Salah Ouslimani, un entrepreneur qui jongle entre immobilier, digital, économie collaborative et location de voitures ! Il nous raconte comment il a développé une flotte de 8 voitures en location sur Getaround. Il a ouvert sa première colocation à Lyon. Il a renouvelé l'opération plusieurs fois avant de développer son activité d'opérateur de colocations et coliving. Il gère aujourd'hui plus de 100 chambres, accompagne des dizaines d'investisseurs, revend des lots de colocations à des institutionnels. Bref, il est passé à l'échelle. Il a aussi acheté et mis en location une dizaine de voitures. Il propose aujourd'hui à des particuliers d'investir dans cette catégorie d'actifs exotique et rémunératrice.

Guillemette Maillère est Head of Data Europe chez Getaround, la plateforme de mise en relation entre propriétaires et locataires de voiture. En Europe, c'est l'ancien Drivy qui a été racheté 300 millions de dollars par son concurrent américain.On aborde notamment :

Paulin Dementhon est le fondateur de Drivy, une plate-forme de location de voiture entre particuliers, aujourd'hui considérée comme le plus grand service d'auto partage d'Europe. En 2009, il est seul avec ce projet fou : trouver le moyen de réduire le nombre de voitures en ville. En 2019, Drivy est vendu à 268 millions d'euros à Getaround. Mais quelles ont été les étapes de ce succès, ainsi que les éléments qui ont pu faire la différence ? Paulin aborde lors de cet entretien les différentes étapes de cette aventure, comment son premier site d'une valeur de 5000 euros, à pu devenir la plateforme d'auto-partage référence en Europe. Un témoignage d'une valeur inestimable pour tous ceux qui veulent faire passer leur business à un autre niveau ! À noter que cet entretien a été réalisé avant la vente de Drivy à Getaround, l'échange ne porte donc pas sur cet évènement. Clique ici si tu veux en savoir plus sur le prochain événement business : https://laroche.com/pd-the-game

Rodolphe Ardant, CEO of French unicorn Spendesk, is this week's guest on the Searching for Mana podcast.  Rodolphe enjoyed a peripatetic childhood moving around the world every three years due to his father's career, and says this instilled in him a ‘sense of curiosity'.  Combined with the ‘autistic boredom' he felt growing up, Rodolphe had a desire to create and build things from an early age, skills he honed at engineering school.It's clear in this episode that Rodolphe maintains the restlessness that characterized his younger years.  After founding and selling his first company (and learning from the mistakes), he joined the car-sharing platform Drivy as Chief Operating Officer before realising he was best suited to the agile, fast-paced start-up environment.  Spendesk was born and was built on two key values: freedom and trust.This is a great episode with insights into how Rodolphe used his highly technical, entrepreneurial mindset to build one of France's tech start-up success stories.Watch & Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3sSnmMa 1:10 Spendesk's mission4:00 Lessons learned while COO at Drivy5:55 Understanding the problem to create the solution8:30 Money is about emotion and having control11:17 Thinking deeply about becoming an entrepreneur again15:50 Spendesk is built on two key values19:25 – Rodolphe's childhood and how it influenced his career20:22 The joy of solving problems, and autistic boredom23:09 What makes an entrepreneur mindset?24'56 Getting over mistakes27:04 What motivates him in the face of continued success

Après une première expérience entrepreneuriale et un passage chez Drivy, Rodolphe voulait construire quelque chose de "grand". Construire un nouveau standard. Et surtout, créer une organisation conçue pour durer. Alors en 2015, avec l'appui du startup studio eFounders, il lance Spendesk. Pour redonner le contrôle aux directions financières sur leurs dépenses opérationnelles. Et offrir plus de liberté aux employés. 6 ans après son lancement, c'est un véritable carton. Tellement que la startup a séduit General Atlantic pour sa série C, avec un chèque de 100 M€ à la clé ! De quoi financer son ambition et prendre une place encore plus importante dans le paysage fintech. Aujourd'hui, Spendesk c'est : +3000 clients +300 collaborateurs +150 M€ levés auprès de d'Index Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures et General Altantic Au cours de cet épisode, il vous explique :

Solène est Head of Product Design chez Getaround. Depuis le lycée, Solène sait qu'elle veut travailler dans le Design. Mais, pour faire plaisir à ses parents, elle s'engage en classe préparatoire, avant d'entre aux Arts et Métiers. Elle y suivra une spécialisation en conception des produits innovants et travaillera avec des designers et des ergonomes. Elle rejoint ensuite l'ENSI-Les Ateliers, où elle va apprendre le métier de Designer : apprendre à faire des choix, renouer avec son intuition et remettre l'utilisateur au centre de tout. En sortant d'école, Solène se spécialise dans le Service Design : ne plus concevoir l'objet, mais l'usage que l'on en fait. Puis elle se spécialise dans le Strategic Design : réfléchir son service pour savoir quand le sortir sur le marché, à quel prix, etc. En même temps, Solène apprend à concevoir ses premières applications. Travaillant en agence, Solène ne suit jamais son travail, passant d'un client à l'autre. Ses choix ne sont pas challengés et elle ne sait pas s'ils sont les bons ou si elle progresse dans son métier. Pour progresser, Solène rejoint la start-up Koolicar, en tant que Product Designer, où elle y développa la culture et la vision design de l'entreprise. Elle nous explique l'importance de démocratiser une culture design au sein d'une entreprise. Cette démocratisation, Solène nous donne quelques clés pour la mener à bien : Expliquer chacun de ses choix, pour montrer qu'ils sont basés sur une vraie réflexion Partager avec l'ensemble de l'entreprise sur son travail pour éveiller les consciences Connaître ses utilisateurs pour argumenter ses choix et prendre une place plus forte dans les discussions, sans être remis en cause Ce travail de vision, nécessaire pour avoir un cap et ne pas s'éparpiller, prend du temps. Solène nous explique comme elle prend le temps de la travailler et de s'extraire du rush quotidien pour la construire. Après la fermeture de Koolicar, Solène rejoint son concurrent : Drivy (désormais Getaround), d'abord en tant que Product Designer puis en tant que Head of Design. Ce qui passionne Solène, c'est la recherche utilisateur. Et c'est pour cela qu'elle est recrutée : Pousser les tests utilisateurs, c'est-à-dire tester une fonctionnalité avant quelle ne soit développée Clarifier les problèmes et les besoins des utilisateurs avant même de créer une fonctionnalité Développer la recherche fondamentale : connaitre qui sont nos utilisateurs, ce qu'ils font sur notre plateforme et pourquoi Pour éduquer l'entreprise à la recherche utilisateur, il faut une nouvelle fois de la patience, mais différentes méthodes sont possibles : Payer des entreprises pour faire la recherche utilisateur pour en montrer les bienfaits, sans réduire la bande-passante des équipes… Faire du shadowing, c'est-à-dire passer du temps, avec d'autres personnes de l'entreprise, à regarder comment interagissent les utilisateurs avec un produit dans leur contexte habituel On aborde également les erreurs à ne pas commettre lorsque l'on fait de la recherche utilisateur. Comment en faire lorsque l'on ne peut pas rencontrer ses utilisateurs en personne ? Comment centraliser les retours clients alors qu'ils peuvent venir de différentes sources ? Les ressources de l'épisodes Les liens Le site de Getaround Les livres Une vie de création de Charlotte Perriand Les livres de Naoto Fukasawa  Méthodes de design UX de Carine Lallemand Les articles de Deliveroo Design Les articles de Spotify Design Lean In de Sheryl Sandberg Les autres épisodes de Design Journeys L'épisode #6 avec Jeremy Barre de Getaround L'épisode #8 avec Jonathan Widawski de Maze Pour contacter Solène : LinkedIn Vous avez aimé cet épisode ? Abonnez-vous à DESIGN SYSTEM sur votre application de podcast préférée N'oubliez pas de mettre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ avec un petit commentaire sur Apple Podcasts Partagez ce podcast à toutes les personnes qui travaillent dans le Design et le Produit 

Rodolphe nous raconte la création de cette scaleup, membre du FrenchTech 120. De ses apprentissages de l’entrepreneuriat avec Wozaik et Drivy jusqu’aux premiers pas avec eFounders. Au travers du cas concret d’un Marketing Manager qui participe à un salon, vous réaliserez concrètement les méandres de dépenses qui en découlent et les boucles d’informations interminables qui s’en suivent. Vous comprendrez donc le “pain point” que résout Spendesk. Alors que nous sommes habitués à des processus fluides et efficaces dans notre vie de tous les jours quand il s’agit de nos dépenses professionnelles celles-ci font l’objet de nombreuses frustrations pour les différents parties impliquées au sein des entreprises et représentent de formidables pertes d’efficience. Rodolphe prend soin de nous décrire les différentes possibilités qu’offre la plateforme, nous parle de ses clients et ses équipes et fait le point sur les différentes levées de fonds effectuées depuis le lancement. Il est également question dans cette discussion des enjeux de sécurité et de fraudes au sein des entreprises et de la manière dont la scaleup s’y prend pour accompagner les départements finance de ses clients. Pour finir, nous revenons sur les différences entre startup studio et incubateur et comprenons l’apport d’eFounders dans les débuts de Spendesk. On repart avec un livre à lire : Fondation d’Isaac Asimov Bonne écoute à tous ! Pour contacter Spendesk : site / LinkedIn. Le contact de Rodolphe Ardant : LinkedIn. Pour soutenir Finscale : S'abonner au podcast pour écouter le prochain épisode Mettre 5 étoiles sur Apple podcast pour aider d'autres personnes à découvrir ce podcast Belle écoute et à la semaine prochaine !

Solène est Head of Product Design chez Getaround. Depuis le lycée, Solène sait qu'elle veut travailler dans le Design. Mais, pour faire plaisir à ses parents, elle s'engage en classe préparatoire, avant d'entre aux Arts et Métiers. Elle y suivra une spécialisation en conception des produits innovants et travaillera avec des designers et des ergonomes. Elle rejoint ensuite l’ENSI-Les Ateliers, où elle va apprendre le métier de Designer : apprendre à faire des choix, renouer avec son intuition et remettre l’utilisateur au centre de tout. En sortant d’école, Solène se spécialise dans le Service Design : ne plus concevoir l’objet, mais l’usage que l’on en fait. Puis elle se spécialise dans le Strategic Design : réfléchir son service pour savoir quand le sortir sur le marché, à quel prix, etc. En même temps, Solène apprend à concevoir ses premières applications. Travaillant en agence, Solène ne suit jamais son travail, passant d'un client à l'autre. Ses choix ne sont pas challengés et elle ne sait pas s'ils sont les bons ou si elle progresse dans son métier. Pour progresser, Solène rejoint la start-up Koolicar, en tant que Product Designer, où elle y développa la culture et la vision design de l’entreprise. Elle nous explique l’importance de démocratiser une culture design au sein d’une entreprise. Cette démocratisation, Solène nous donne quelques clés pour la mener à bien : Expliquer chacun de ses choix, pour montrer qu’ils sont basés sur une vraie réflexion Partager avec l’ensemble de l’entreprise sur son travail pour éveiller les consciences Connaître ses utilisateurs pour argumenter ses choix et prendre une place plus forte dans les discussions, sans être remis en cause Ce travail de vision, nécessaire pour avoir un cap et ne pas s'éparpiller, prend du temps. Solène nous explique comme elle prend le temps de la travailler et de s'extraire du rush quotidien pour la construire. Après la fermeture de Koolicar, Solène rejoint son concurrent : Drivy (désormais Getaround), d’abord en tant que Product Designer puis en tant que Head of Design. Ce qui passionne Solène, c’est la recherche utilisateur. Et c’est pour cela qu’elle est recrutée : Pousser les tests utilisateurs, c’est-à-dire tester une fonctionnalité avant quelle ne soit développée Clarifier les problèmes et les besoins des utilisateurs avant même de créer une fonctionnalité Développer la recherche fondamentale : connaitre qui sont nos utilisateurs, ce qu’ils font sur notre plateforme et pourquoi Pour éduquer l’entreprise à la recherche utilisateur, il faut une nouvelle fois de la patience, mais différentes méthodes sont possibles : Payer des entreprises pour faire la recherche utilisateur pour en montrer les bienfaits, sans réduire la bande-passante des équipes… Faire du shadowing, c’est-à-dire passer du temps, avec d’autres personnes de l’entreprise, à regarder comment interagissent les utilisateurs avec un produit dans leur contexte habituel On aborde également les erreurs à ne pas commettre lorsque l’on fait de la recherche utilisateur. Comment en faire lorsque l’on ne peut pas rencontrer ses utilisateurs en personne ? Comment centraliser les retours clients alors qu’ils peuvent venir de différentes sources ? Les ressources de l'épisodes Les liens Le site de Getaround Les livres Une vie de création de Charlotte Perriand Les livres de Naoto Fukasawa  Méthodes de design UX de Carine Lallemand Les articles de Deliveroo Design Les articles de Spotify Design Lean In de Sheryl Sandberg Les autres épisodes de Design Journeys L’épisode #6 avec Jeremy Barre de Getaround L’épisode #8 avec Jonathan Widawski de Maze Pour contacter Solène : LinkedIn Vous avez aimé cet épisode ? Abonnez-vous à DESIGN SYSTEM sur votre application de podcast préférée N'oubliez pas de mettre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ avec un petit commentaire sur Apple Podcasts Partagez ce podcast à toutes les personnes qui travaillent dans le Design et le Produit 

Nadège Lumbers est directrice juridique Europe de Getaround, le leader mondial de l'auto-partage et à l'origine du département juridique de Drivy où elle est arrivée en 2018 pour accompagner le rachat, un immense projet qui s'est soldé par une vente à 300M$. Avant ça, elle est passée par un grand groupe international où elle avait la charge du pôle IP qu'elle a créé suite à un rachat. Dans chacune de ses expériences, elle a du s'adapter à une organisation différente et créer ou réinventer une culture juridique. Lors de ce talk #14, elle nous donne ses conseils pour réussir à créer et entretenir une culture juridique, et reviendra sur les difficultés qu'elle a pu rencontrer. Articles et références : - 7 manières de renforcer la culture juridique dans votre entreprise : https://getleeway.com/blog/juristes-7-manieres-de-renforcer-la-culture-juridique-dans-votre-entreprise - Portrait de Nadège Lumbers : https://getleeway.com/blog/dans-la-peau-de-nadege-lumbers-premiere-directrice-juridique-de-drivy-devenu-getaround - Interview de Nadège Lumbers : https://www.fedlegal.fr/interview-de-nadege-lumbers-directrice-juridique-chez-getaround

Retrouvez le GOOD MORNING FrenchWeb tous les matins dès 06h45 avec Joseph Postec et la rédaction de FrenchWeb.fr pour découvrir les meilleures pratiques et innovation en matière de transformation numérique.Pour clôturer cette semaine spéciale automobile, notre journaliste Laetitia Lienhard est allée à la rencontre de Simon Baldeyrou , COO Europe de getaround qui est un des leaders mondiaux de l'auto partage. L'entreprise avait racheté Drivy en 2019. Nous faisons un point avec lui sur ce rachat, un premier bilan 1 an après mais aussi sur l'envie de l'entreprise d'être toujours plus présente dans Paris. Ensuite, nous avons pu échanger avec Benjamin Gaignault, cofondateur d'ornikar, auto-école en ligne. Avec la fermeture des auto-écoles au premier et au second confinement, l'année a été rude pour le secteur. Benjamin Gaignault nous expliquera comment l'entreprise s'est adaptée à la situation et les changement qui se sont opérés sur le marché de l'auto-école.

Jeremy est Head of Product Design chez Getaround Europe (ex-Drivy). Après des études d’interaction designer, Jeremy devient Product Designer chez Youtube puis chez Facebook/Messenger dans la Silicon Valley. Il nous explique comment il a pu rejoindre ces entreprises juste à la sortie de ses études et la différence notable entre le Product Design aux Etats-Unis et en Europe, et plus particulièrement en France. Jeremy revient sur ces 3 années chez Drivy : de l’évangélisation du Design à la construction d’une équipe de 7 personnes. Il nous explique comment, dès son arrivée, il a mis en place des rituels pour démocratiser le design et expliquer sa valeur pour l’entreprise. Il détaille la mise en place de la cérémonie qu’il juge la plus importante : la design critique — cérémonie hebdomadaire au cours de laquelle une squad se retrouve pour discuter des maquettes afin de faire avancer un projet. On parle également de la démocratisation de la user research au sein de l’équipe produit pour identifier les difficultés rencontrées par les utilisateurs et pour tester les features mises en place. Jeremy revient aussi sur sujet dont il parle beaucoup : la relation Product Manager / Product Designer. On revient sur sa façon de voir les deux rôles, leurs interaction et façons de travailler ensemble ainsi que leur complémentarité de la découverte d’un problème à sa résolution. Jeremy aborde, avec beaucoup de recul, ses débuts en tant que manager avec la constitution d’une équipe de 7 designers. Il nous explique, étape par étape, les raisons pour lesquelles il a recruté chaque profil de son équipe. Il nous montre comment chacun membre de l’équipe permet aux autres de monter en compétence pour être toujours meilleur dans leur travail. On discute également de l’internationalisation de la recherche et de l’UX Writing ou encore de la création et l’implémentation d’un Design System. Enfin, on parle de la suite pour Jeremy. Après l’annonce de son départ de Getaround, il a décidé de rejoindre The Design Crew… --------------------------------------------------

Le rôle de Product designer émerge dans de plus en plus d'entreprises. Mais avec l'essor du Produit, ls contours entre Product Manager et Product designer peuvent sembler flou. Certains se marchent sur les pieds, et certaines entreprises finissent par faire endosser les deux rôles à une seule personne. Alors, Product designer, c'est quoi ? Quel est le rôle du Product Manager et du Product Designer ? Quelles approches et méthodes mettre en place pour tirer le maximum de la collaboration Product Manager - Product designer ? Comment déveloper une culture design from scratch au sein du Produit ?

Acierate. [ˈæsɪəˌreɪt]. Verb (transitive). To convert (iron) into steel. That is at least what the Oxford English Dictionary might tell you if you searched for the meaning of this word. If you'd ask any raver from European Techno hotspots nowadays, like Berlin, Paris, Tbilisi or Barcelona, who haven't been hiding under rocks for the past few years, they might give you a different definition. They might tell you a story. A story about a DJ they can't forget. A DJ who provided them with sonic experiences in a class of their own. Drivy, aggressive synth leads, encased by hammering industrial tunes. Music, so energetic, so undeniably going forward that it almost hurts not dancing to it. Because that's what Berlin born and bred Acierate is serving his audiences. The founder of SYNOID and resident of Berlin's infamous Griessmuehle has an indisputable reputation for unapologetic DJ sets driven by an unquenchable thirst for rave. Not in the sense of bluntly sequencing matching records, but in building up musical narrations. Telling stories not with words but with synth lines, high hats, snares, and a hell of a lot of bass drum. Converting sonic energy into physical movement Tham is an up-and-coming artist from Berlin, where he's also one half behind the infamous SYNOID series and resident at Griessmuehle. As he discovered his love for electronic music on the city's dancefloors, his style of DJing is all about the dancefloor: creating an energetic flow using industrial tunes and aggressive synth sounds. The same goes for his productions, which made him part of the rising techno label “Lebendig”. Tracklist: bit.ly/SlamRadioGroup Subscribe on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/slam-radio/id584845850 Keep up with SLAM: fanlink.to/Slam Keep up with Soma Records: fanlink.to/SomaRecords www.instagram.com/slam_djs/ www.facebook.com/SLAM.soma twitter.com/slam_djs Slam Radio is produced at www.glowcast.co.uk For syndication or radio queries, email conor@somarecords.com If you enjoy this music and like receiving it every week - if you want to support Slam as artists please consider making a small donation to the cause here: www.paypal.me/slamdjs

C’est en se rendant compte, après avoir loué plusieurs voitures sur Drivy (maintenant Getaround), que gérer une petite flotte en auto-partage représentait un véritable métier et que les financements n’étaient pas adaptés, que notre pitcher du jour a eu l’idée de’Hiveway. Sébastien Louit a fondé Hiveway, le premier service de voiture par abonnement en France. Actuellement en plein pivot, Hiveway ne permet plus seulement à chacun, d’investir dans des véhicules automobiles et de les louer via leur plateforme mais ils proposent également un service de location de voitures par abonnement. Pour challenger son pitch : Gabriel Jarrosson, fondateur du club privé Leonis Investissement ainsi que Matthieu Stefani de Cosa Vostra. Date de création : Avril 2017, mais réellement actif depuis un anCA : Environs 30K MRR avant la crise, soit 350k de revenus annualisésMontants levés par le passé : 125K€ via TechstarsMontant qu’ils cherchent à lever : 600K€, dont 250K€ déjà trouvés et s’ils atteignent les 600K€, Techstars va remettre 150K€Leur valorisation : Ils lèvent des fonds en convertibles (BSA AIR). les paramètres sont : Discount 25%, cap 4M, floor 1MNombre d'employés : 7Ce qui lui a donné envie de devenir entrepreneur :La liberté de choisir un projet et de le porter... ainsi que son héritage familial (les Louit ont été parmi les premiers à importer du chocolat en France !). Son livre de chevet :The power of words sur la vie de Churchill au travers de ses discours Trois hashtags qui décrivent Hiveway :#lovewhatyoudo #workhardplayhard #forward Hiveway vous intéresse ? Vous pouvez entrer en contact avec Sébastien à cette adresse.Pitch Pong, c’est le podcast qui vous propose de découvrir les start-ups de demain avant tout le monde. Pour écouter l’épisode c’est ici pour les utilisateurs d’Apple Podcast, par là pour les utilisateurs de Spotify et juste ici pour ceux qui préfèrent Deezer. Merci à Microsoft For Startups de l’avoir rendu possible. Pour en savoir plus, rendez-vous sur pitchpong.io/#microsoft.

Pour ce nouvel épisode du Pompon, j'ai le plaisir de recevoir Benoit Panel, Cofondateur et CEO de Yescapa, numéro 1 en Europe de la location camping-car et van aménagés de particuliers à particuliers ! Un échange passionnant avec cet entrepreneur féru de voyages et adepte du « slow travel » qui part d'un constat : il n'avait pas de solutions adéquates pour ses vacances, donc il a créé Jelouemoncampingcar.com devenu Yescapa par la suite

Dans cet épisode je reçois Selma Hadj Hamou, aujourd’hui Paid Acquisition Manager chez MALT et précédemment Trafic Manager chez GETAROUND (ex-DRIVY). Si vous ne connaissez pas Malt, c’est LA plateforme de mise en relation entre freelances et entreprises avec 170000 freelances et 90000 entreprises, dont 80% du CAC40. Selma connaît bien la problématique des plateformes : arriver à faire correspondre le bon niveau d’offre (des entreprises qui proposent des missions) et de demande (les freelances qui recherchent des missions) pour que tout le monde soit content. Pendant cette discussion avec Selma, vous allez apprendre : Comment on devient responsable de l’acquisition payante pour de grosses start-ups… sans avoir été formé à ça Quelle est la stratégie publicitaire de Malt sur Facebook Comment elle répartit son budget mensuel de plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’euros entre recrutement de freelances et génération de prospects côté entreprise Sa manière d’utiliser les audiences similaires Son processus créatif pour créer et tester de nouveaux contenus Comment elle a réussi à recruter 10000 freelances dans un nouveau pays en quelques mois Ses conseils pour bien démarrer avec la publicité sur Facebook Bonne écoute ! ---------- Abonnez-vous à ma newsletter ici pour recevoir toutes les actualités Facebook & Instagram Business dans votre boîte mail (2x / mois) : https://neomedia.io/newsletter ---------- L'actualité de la semaine : WhatsApp franchit la barre des 2 milliards d’utilisateurs 37 millions d’utilisateurs en France pour Facebook Instagram a généré 28% du CA de Facebook on 2019 Instagram est le réseau le plus utilisé chez les jeunes Facebook lance enfin son outil « Activité en dehors de Facebook » pour tout le monde ---------- L’actualité Neomedia : La grande nouvelle me concernant est que Neomedia Digital est officiellement 'Facebook Marketing Partner', ce qui veut dire que je suis référencé sur le site Facebook Business parmi les agences recommandées par Facebook

Paulin Dementhon is the Europe CEO of Getaround. He was co-founder and CEO of the French startup Drivy, which was acquired for 300 million USD by Getaround. Getaround is a carsharing marketplace app, basically Airbnb for cars. While free floating carsharing is for a couple of minutes, most Getaround rides are for a couple of hours or days. Some car owner make 500 to 600 € a month. In Germany early peer-to-peer carsharing companies have been sued by the car rental companies. We talk about the Wunder Mobility Summit. He liked the talks Horace Dediu (Check out my Podcast with Horace) and John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo. Paulin is looking forward to a great future, where Getaround partners with Waymo, vehicles are designed for different use cases and cities have improved their stress levels.

Rodolphe Ardant is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spendesk, a high-growth fin-tech SaaS company from Paris. Before Spendesk, Rod was a Founder in residence at startup studio eFounders, COO for the car rental startup Drivy, and Founder of Wozaik, a digital advertising startup acquired by Solocal Group in 2013. Spendesk is an all-in-one corporate expense and spend management service helping businesses spend smarter. It lets you track expenses across your company, empower your employees with a clear approval process and simplify your bookkeeping. French startup Spendesk has raised another $38.4 million in a Series B round announced in September 2019, with existing investor Index Ventures leading the round. The company has raised $49.4 million (€45 million) to date. With the recent funding round, the company plans to open offices in Berlin and London, add more currencies and develop new features. Over the past year, the company went from 20 employees to 120 employees. There are now over 1,500 companies using Spendesk in Europe. Tune in for a candid chat with Rod about this journey.

Dans cet épisode, Issam s'interroge sur la mobilité d'aujourd'hui, principalement en ville. Depuis toujours, l'Homme n'a cessé d'inventer sans cesse de nouvelles façons de se déplacer. La voiture fait partie des plus grandes inventions de notre histoire. Pratique, voire indispensable, elle a gagné la majorité des foyers et y occupe une place de choix. Trop polluante, parfois utilisée pour des trajets trop courts, aujourd'hui, son utilisation est remise en question face aux changements climatiques Pourrait-on s'en passer, en tout cas en ville ? Quels sont les alternatives ? Si on ne souhaite pas abandonner sa voiture, quelles sont les autres options qui permettent d'optimiser son utilisation ? Ce sont les questions qu'Issam a posé à Patricia Lejoux, chargée de recherches en aménagement et urbanisme, mais également à Laure Wagner, porte parole de BlaBlaCar, qui lui a parlé du nouveau système de covoiturage du quotidien. Sviatoslav Beysens, responsable de la communication de Drivy, lui a également expliqué comment partager sa propre voiture grâce à un système de location entre particuliers. Enfin, William Roze, manager chez ShareNow, lui a raconté pourquoi cette nouvelle plateforme d'autopartage en Smart est venue s'implanter à Paris après Autolib, et comment cela fonctionne. Bonne écoute ! L’équipe Elementaire Club. ------------------------------------------------------------- - Les références de l’épisode : Reportage : Issam Lachehab - Les intervenants : Patricia Lejoux : www.laet.science/LEJOUX-Patricia Laure Wagner, BlaBlaCar : www.blablacar.fr/ Sviatoslav Beysens, Drivy : www.drivy.com/ William Roze, ShareNow : www.share-now.com/ Montage / jingle : Aurélien Ung

Alexa* schreibt: “Mein Sohn ist knapp ein Jahr alt und ich stelle mir die Frage, wann ein guter Zeitpunkt für ein zweites Kind ist. Mein Gefühl sagt aktuell, dass ich einen größeren Abstand von drei bis vier Jahren gut finden würde, aber Meinungen im Freundeskreis verunsichern mich. Wie seht ihr das? Ist das eher ein "schlechtes" Alter, weil der Wunsch nach Autonomie stark im Vordergrund steht und ich damit alle Hände voll zu tun haben werde? Meine Sorge bei einem kleineren Abstand ist, zwei kleine Kinder auf einmal zu haben und keinem so richtig gerecht werden zu können..” *Name geändert Wenn ihr auch Fragen an Katia Saalfrank habt, dann schickt sie gerne an familienrat@mitvergnuegen.com Hier findet ihr außerdem noch mehr Informationen zu Katia Saalfrank und ihrem bindungs- & beziehungsorientierten Ansatz: https://www.katiasaalfrank.de/ | Kinder besser verstehen: https://www.kinderbesserverstehen.net/ | Katia’s Autorenseite auf Amazon: https://amzn.to/33aAGwf ----- Supporter des Familienrates ist dieses Mal drivy. Auf Drivy by Getaround vermietet ihr euer Auto für ein paar Stunden oder Tage. Mit der App können eure Mieter euer Auto buchen, lokalisieren und öffnen – damit ihr nicht einmal vom Sofa aufstehen müsst. Das Auto ist während deiner Anmietungen natürlich immer über Drivy by Getaround versichert. Geteilte Autos sind bessere Autos. Sie entlasten unsere Städte und Umwelt. Schließt euch mit 6000 anderen Autobesitzern in Deutschland an und teilt euer Auto auf Drivy by Getaround. Lass dein Auto für dich arbeiten: http://tiny.cc/8a0l8y

Die heutige Folge wird präsentiert von Drivy by Getaround. Drivy ist das Carsharing in deiner Nachbarschaft und die weltweit größte Carsharing-Community aus privaten und gewerblichen Autobesitzer*innen mit über 5 Millionen Nutzer*innen die sich über 60.000 Autos teilen. Mit dem Code Mit dem Code “SUPERGERNE” bekommst du einen 40€ Gutschein für deine erste Drivy Fahrt. Drivy App im Appstore oder PlayStore runterladen und nix wie los. Alle Infos hier: http://tiny.cc/2csi8y In der heutigen Folge sprechen wir über die großen Fragen des Lebens. Wie will ich eigentlich leben? Eine Frage, die man nicht einmal beantwortet und dann hat sich das Thema erledigt. Nein, wir sind ständig im Prozess Antworten darauf zu finden. Sei es nun die längere Zeit im Ausland, das Wohnprojekt, was man sich (vielleicht auch romantisch verklärt) vorstellt oder der Traum vom Eigenheim. Wir alle haben Vorstellungen darüber, wie wir leben wollen. Wir sprechen darüber, was das für Beziehungen bedeutet und auch für uns ganz persönlich. Am Ende sind wir uns sicher: Es ist alles zu jeder Zeit in Bewegung. Wir laden dich ein auf ein Gläschen Wein auf dem Balkon zum Philosophieren über das Leben. Buchempfehlungen, die in der Folge fallen: "Madame Moneypenny" von Natascha Wegelin "Freiraum" von Svenja Gräfen "Alles auf Anfang: Auf den Spuren gelebter Träume" von Manuel Möglich P.S.: Das Kinder-Thema haben wir bewusst etwas ausgeklammert, da wir dazu bereits eine eigene Folge aufgenommen haben. Schau mal hier: https://soundcloud.com/gern-geschehen/muss-ich-eigentlich-kinder-kriegen

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EP008 - ICRS Recap and Industry News http://www.vehicle2.getspiffy.com Episode 8 is a news-focused episode, recorded on April 25th, 2019. We start off with a recap of last week’s International Car Rental Show (ICRS) from Karl Murphy, President and Co-Founder at Spiffy. After talking with Karl, Scot dives into a variety of recent news items, including: Smartcar, who we featured in Episode 3, has accused Otonomo for allegedly stealing from their API documentation. Recent study shows that consumers are ready to make payments via connected car dashboard. Getaround expands outside of US with acquistion of European counterpart Drivy. Ford invests $500 million in EV pickup truck maker Rivian. China is pushing EVs to make up 20% of total auto market by 2025, while the US is expected to hit 7%. Tesla reveals hardware chip for their Full Self-Driving initiative. Uber S-1 discloses $457 million in R&D costs for autonomous vehicles, flying cars, and other “technology programs”. If you enjoyed this episode, please write us a review on iTunes! The four pillars of Vehicle 2.0 are electrification, connectivity, autonomy, and changing ownership models. In the Vehicle 2.0 Podcast, we will look at the future of the auto industry through guest expert interviews, deep dives into specific topics, news coverage, and hot takes with instant analysis on what the latest breaking news means for today and in time to come. This episode was produced and sound engineered by Jackson Balling, and hosted by Scot Wingo.   Transcript: Scot: [00:51] Welcome to the Vehicle 2.0 Podcast. This is Episode 8 and it's being recorded Thursday, April 25th, 2019. Welcome back Vehicle 2.0 listeners this week on the show. We are going to take a break from all the guests we've had on. We've really enjoyed and learned a ton in the last arc of gassed. And we're going to cover some news here in the automobile industry related to Vehicle 2.0 in last week's episode seven, we had Chris Brown from Bob Business Media and he is the editor of auto rental news where they think a lot about the changing ownership models out there. And if you recall, he curates the international car rental show, also known as ICRS. First, uh, to kick off this news episode, we have the co-founder of spiffy our very own Karl Murphy and he's gonna give us a trip report, a fresh off the heels of his trip to Las Vegas last week to the show. Welcome to the show, Karl. Karl: [01:52] Thanks Scot. Scot: [01:53] So you were in Vegas last week at the trade show. It's our first time ever going to this trade show. We were a, uh, we were an exhibitor, um, and uh, you know what? Uh, so it was a great show for spiffy and enjoyed a really exhibiting there. Uh, but that's not what we want to talk about today. What are, I know you were able to peel away and see a bunch of the content. Um, what were some of the trends and topics going on at the show? Karl: [02:16] Sure. So it's, uh, an interesting show. It had a mix of both large companies like Avis and Hertz and Ford and Toyota and small entrepreneurs. You know, companies like spiffy that makes software and entrepreneurs that have small fleets, maybe 10 or 20 cars and they're renting to a, uh, small Mitch. So it was interesting to talk to global companies and small folks. Um, it's uh, like three quarters us attendance and maybe 25% international. So we spoke to people from Brazil and Australia, Canada, a couple of Europeans were there. And so it's, it's interesting to get their perspective. It's, it's interesting, you know, um, their, their challenges are the same year. They all sort of a, from a vendor standpoint talk about the same things and want the same things. Karl: [03:01] Um, it was well attended. It was at the, you know, it was in Vegas at the Paris hotel in a, from a, from a provider's standpoint or vendor stand standpoint, really high quality attendees. It's like the people who showed up at our decision makers, they were running the fleet or they're the CEO or their, you know, sort of at a, at a corporate, you know, if they're smaller company, if it's a corporate level, it's sort of the, the decision maker or sort of one level away. So there wasn't a lot of um, you know, sort of distracting boost traffic, people looking for chotchkies and that sort of stuff. Nobody, nobody cared about our pens and penguins. They cared about our service and um, and sort of the things that we're doing to help fleet operators provide better preventative maintenance. Scot: [03:43] Cool. So, um, uh, so when we had Chris on the show, he talked about a lot of the different trends. Um, it feels to me having come from the ecommerce industry that, that it must feel a lot like a kind of retail shows where everyone, you have kind of the, the, you know, the, the industry stalwarts there kind of a little bit in shell shock and then this whole new group that kind of sees the future. Uh, did you get a vibe that, you know, folks are in denial about what's going on or is everyone kind of onboard with it? Karl: [04:12] Uh, there's like two camps, right? So there's the accepting the changes in the industry and the, and the changes in mobility that are going on and that, that Uber and Lyft exist and those companies are gonna be around for awhile and they impact the rental industry. Uh, clearly, um, the large auto companies see those guys as a threat to people taking, you know, taking their business. Um, there was an enormous amount of, uh, small entrepreneurs and small, you know, I mean it could be 2000 cars. It's sort of a small fleet, um, to, you know, maybe 20 or 30, but small entrepreneurs looking to get into, uh, you know, the changing mobility landscape. So they're either subletting, sub leasing cars to Uber drivers on a, on a short term basis. You know, it could be a day or a week or a month depending on sort of their model. They're software companies, they're providing all kinds of software to solve those problems for entrepreneurs. Karl: [05:06] Um, you know, some of those were companies that didn't make the comp competitive cut against Uber and Lyft and they repackaged and rebranded and now they're trying to help smaller entrepreneurs who are delivering services. Um, and, but there's clearly like there's some definite old school companies trying to solve old school problems. Um, I attended a, um, for like 10 minutes, there was a presentation on the, the um, sales characteristics and recruiting profile of a high performing counter agent, you know, and, and, and essentially, you know, they just want to sell you insurance, right. Um, and get you in, you know, they want to take you from the, the Toyota Tercel to the Tahoe. And then add, you know, double secret, leave the keys in the road, incentives at grid, coordinate insurance. You don't owe us anything. Um, and, and I, I was here for like 10 minutes. I'm like, you know, it's sort of like you who's selling buggies today, you know, like, I need somebody really good to sell buggies. Karl: [06:02] Um, because as a client I don't ever want to have my, my car rental customer experience breaks down when I go see the counter agent. Yeah. It's like the opposite of what the customer experience should be. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, I just want to like get keys and go to the car and drive away. Like you have my Amex and you have my id and my driver's license and I'll give you a retina scan and a fingerprint if you want. I would put a track, I mean, I'm sure you have a tracker on the car already. Right? And there's some of that stuff too. And, and so there's this dichotomy of there's all this connected car data and they talked about being able to shut down cars, you know, because I guess there's some issue where people will, you know, they'll rent in San Antonio and drive to Mexico and strip the car apart. Karl: [06:38] And, you know, you never, you never see the vehicle again. They, that's, that's a problem the industry for them. Um, and I was like, you know, this, this is sort of a wasted, you know, this is a 1970s, um, uh, session versus, you know, sort of impact of micro mobility and, and, and, and there's a lot of opportunity for it. I think. Um, you know, as the previous guests said, you know, there's all this data being shared that cities and governments are looking forward to, to reduce traffic problems. Um, and, and that, you know, I think that's a way for the industry to get on the side of, of government, hey, we got all this data. We can, we can better route traffic or we can charge different fees for different access points and when there's rush out and that sort of thing. Scot: [07:22] Yeah. Um, I saw a fair amount of Twitter traffic around. Um, there's a lot of pundits that come to these shows and kind of share their vision into the future. A Cox auto's has a, an economist there. Uh, it must be nice to have an economist. We don't, we're not big enough. It's 50 to have our own economist yet. Karl: [07:39] That's you, Scot. Scot: [07:40] Yeah, I'm a, I'm a couch economist. The uh, uh, what, what were some of the trends he was talking about and they've certainly been really active in this space. Karl: [07:48] Yeah. So it's interesting. They, they, uh, so at a, at a high level, they thought, um, GDP was like in the high ones, so like one five to, to sorta depending on, um, trade tensions, Paris and that sort of thing, you know, x, some sort of a dramatic positive or negative impact on the economy, you know, terrorist incident or some crazy tax cut or something. He was outside of things we can't forecast. He thought he was sorta like, here's my bets. Like one, eight, one, nine. Um, and then, uh, at the car level, it was interesting. I just don't, I don't really think about this stuff, but he's like, the average cost of a new car is going to tick over $40,000 in the next year or so. I can 2019, maybe 20, 20. Um, and it's, it's being driven by the desire for consumers, for larger cars, SUVs and trucks. Karl: [08:38] Um, and then the dealers just, you know, from a manufacturing standpoint, not making small cars like Fords, like not making sedans minus the Mustang and the mustangs like to get into a Mustang with like, you know, without a radio. It's like 45 grand or something. And so that was interesting. And then dovetails Edo, he talked about some of the trends that we talk about spiffy about millennials and their changing behaviors. And you know, they prefer to live in cities. They prefer to have experiences over owning things like, and in some cases, you know, we have, you know, millennial, you know, you're 17 and you don't have a driver's license. You know, I know you and I talk like that was like the first thing to get your freedom at 16 was to get your driver's license and get out of here, get out of your house. Karl: [09:19] And so, um, it's, uh, all those things swirling together, um, make it difficult for dealers. Right. Um, and, and so it was interesting to see that. Um, he had some interesting data and I know we talked about this offline, about the cost of ownership for like, say a baby boomer versus a millennial and it's like 20 cents a mile higher, right? And so they do it in cost per mile. Uh, and like if you're like 50 or 60, it's like 50 cents a mile to own a car. And for a millennial it's like 75 or 77 cents. And it swirls into, you know, higher insurance rates because you're younger, a higher interest rates because you have less credit history or some smaller incomes. And that you live in an urban environment. So then just things like parking fees and that sort of stuff get higher and you're using your ma, your car less if you do own a picture in an urban environment. Karl: [10:12] So all of those things come in. And then it, it really pulls people out of buying cars new, which makes the used car market bigger, which is relevant to the car rental agencies piss a bunch of them, have a model where they just make money selling their cars on the secondary market. Um, and so there's a lot of discussion about how do you sell cars? Do you sell them direct? Like enterprise has their own used car sales lots so you can drive up and by car from enterprise today. Um, or do you go through auctions, um, traditional auctions that our dealer to dealer, um, which would then put you into like a, you know, a local used car guy, um, or some of the newer platforms where you're like a Carvana where you're selling it, um, online to someone. And so it was, uh, he had, he had a lot of insights about that. Karl: [11:00] He felt like the Oems, we're going to survive. Um, he thought the dealer networks, we're sort of at risk. Um, and he felt like the auctions had to really evolve. Ppas. There's a lot of, a lot of people chipping away at the edges of the traditional auction business. Um, it was interesting. It's interesting to sorta hear the side talk among people depending on who they were. Um, you know, again, we're sort of side participant vendors in that market, but the people were pretty, it was interesting to hear that. Yep. Cool. And then now when we had Chris on the show, one of the big topics he talked about is, so if we have this change in ownership model from individual ownership to more business ownership, uh, and um, you know, who's going to take care of all, all these vehicles, this is obviously near and dear to our heart. Karl: [11:43] Um, so he kind of talked about fleet management as a service. A, is that something that was talked about at the show or were there a lot of vendors there for that? Uh, there were couple of vendors. I mean there's us and a, and a couple others. Um, it was absolutely a topic of people that visited us. I would say 75, 80% of the people who came to talk to us, we're looking to do that. Again, it's, it's primarily the new players to the market because the business sounds interesting until you own cars and they're split up all over. You know, I've got, I'm a distributed, you know, mobility network provider in Los Angeles. I own 200 cars in there into 10 lots across La. Oh Wow. I have a lot of things to do all over, uh, you know, an 18 million person city. And so they're looking for people to go out there and deal with the cars. Karl: [12:31] I mean, one of the things that was interesting, we've, we saw a, um, a digital, um, key exchange system, right? So it's highly secure, sort of designed to be in, in the most dangerous of locations and, and really, you know, to, to withstand sort of vandalism, that sort of thing. You know, you can show a bar code and it, it's, it's a gps or a cell phone enabled. And so it communicates it. And that was super interesting and they were across the, across the way from us in the trade show area and had, they had a lot of traffic and then people coming to us asking, you know, can you know, what are the services you can do? And, and when they talk, when we, you know, we said, hey, we do, you know, fleet fleet maintenance, we can do preventative maintenance, oil change, tire rotation, um, car washing, all that sort of stuff. Karl: [13:17] They, they got pretty excited about it because they're seeing that that's a problem, right? Because as soon as you start moving the vehicles, then they get dirty and the more successful you are, the more maintenance you need and all those sorts of things. So it was, it was, um, it was an exciting validation of our model. Yeah. Um, so there seems to be this lifecycle where people kind of start dabbling with, um, you know, I've, I've even seen people, they'll Turo, they're their own vehicle. Then they'll, they'll realize there's money to be made. Then they'll add a second and then they'll build into these micro fleets and then they're gonna need a fleet services and those kinds of things. Um, a lot of the investors I talk to you, they kind of like build models and they say the economics will never work. But then at the same time, I see these guys scaling up from tens to hundreds to thousands of vehicles. Karl: [13:59] So, um, do you get any vibe that this model is working for these guys here? We spoke to someone who own 2000 cars in Metro New York and, you know, and they were not like enterprise, right? They were like, you know, it was like Scott and Karl, but they're in New York. And um, you know, I asked them a little bit about what, you know, you know, we had a good conversation. You know, I was obviously interested in talking about their business and how we can help them. We had a little bit of a conversation about their business model and they were pretty cagey about it. But I mean, I, I find it hard to believe you can get the 2000 cars before, you know, you don't figure out the econ economics don't work. You know, it's like, yeah, I could see you could have 20 cars and you could sort of fun that to a point where like, yeah, something must be working to be able to afford 2000 guards. Yeah. It's probably a utilization thing out. Imagine. And they, um, and they must have figured out like, uh, you also kind of start to wonder like, how do they go and acquire all these drivers? And so Scot: [14:52] they almost have to have a marketing, you know, how do they get their utilization up? It'll be a nurse in to, to, to understand how that works as this scales up. Karl: [14:59] Yeah. I v V this particular guy was providing cars to the two major, you know, Uber and Lyft. Right? Yeah. And so I think he has some sort of relationship with them where they're feeding them leads. He didn't seem like he had a big marketing push or problem. He had, he had maintenance and operations problems, um, where the, the law, the list of their problems for the most part. Scot: [15:20] Cool. Awesome. Any other last thoughts about the show? Karl: [15:23] No, it was interesting. I mean there was a whole session on connected car, um, which is cool. Um, they talked about connected car and autonomy and I think they generally felt like, uh, you know, autonomy sort of like five years out plus in connected cars, been here for five years and the, the, the communication and the marketing firm, everybody sorta was disconnected. Um, the rental car agencies think about connected cars. How can we sell more stuff to people renting our cars because of the data we have on them. That was like, hey, that was the major focus of the, of an hour long session. Um, I as a, as a car or rent or on a traveler, I didn't really know what I wanted them to sell me. Like if I want to go to a restaurant, I'm going to use Google or Yelp or open table or something. Karl: [16:12] And so I sort of felt like they were trying to duplicate things that exist already. Um, you know, there was some sort of compliance sort of legal stuff. Like, you know, you said you were going to leave the state and then you laughed. But they have those trackers now and I don't know what news from that, you know, they can sorta tell those things before. A lot of connected car stuff. So uh, but it was interesting they were talking about it. It was very, it was very, you know, current model centric, not sort of new model centric. And then they also did talk about sharing data. You know, I guess as business people you always sort of like, you know, run up against the government and everyone sort of like hair on the back or the neck stands up on end when the government shows up. Um, but they were all fairly positive about sharing data with government entities to to improve traffic flow and, and to generally, you know, be a, be a positive player in the transportation communities that they, that they operate in, which is sort of pretty interesting. I know here in Raleigh we have more traffic problems that we had 10 years ago and I'm looking forward to, you know, all that data, making it better personally. Scot: [17:11] Yeah. Awesome. Well thanks for that trip report and thanks for being on the podcast. Karl: [17:14] Thanks Scot. Scot: [17:33] So that's all the news from ICRS. Now let's look at some of the news from around the industry, uh, from other sources. As a reminder here on the Vehicle 2.0 Podcast, we look at the Vehicle 2.0 framework and that's where we look at the four waves of innovation sweeping through the auto industry conductivity, changing ownership models, electrification and autonomy in news, uh, on connectivity. There's been this really interesting public kind of spat between, uh, one of our guests on the show, smart car. Uh, they have a competitor called Otonomo and this erupted into the press has reported a actually this week in tech crunch, uh, these guys are battling out. It looks like there's, um, some, uh, potential copying going on or some kind of intellectual property battle between these two companies. They both provide API for autonomous are, sorry, excuse me, for connectivity in cars and they are definitely battling it out in public. Scot: [18:32] If your interested in that we'll put a link in the show notes. Um, there was an interesting study published a here in the last week or so, uh, where they asked 3000 adults, uh, about various things around vehicles. Uh, and this is from Kantar a half the consumers said they would be a, you know, very likely or extremely likely to use their car as a way of pain. Um, so imagine, you know, we, we are in the touchless payment world and ecommerce now where you can just tap your phone to an NFC chip and pay for things. What if your car had payment credentials and as you drove through, uh, you know, it seems like a likely scenario would be drive throughs if you drove through a drive through your, your vehicle kind of talked to the drive through and authenticated payment. Um, uh, so, uh, that's an interesting use of connected car for payments that we haven't really seen. Scot: [19:21] But it sounds like consumers are eager to try it out. Moving on to changing ownership models. Uh, the big news there is tech crunch reported yesterday that one of the top, uh, person to person ride sharing companies get around, uh, acquired one of their larger competitors in Europe called Drivy. Uh, so, uh, that was a $300 million acquisition with which is obviously pretty substantial. Uh, get around, has raised 400 million. So it's not clear if they just used all that on this acquisition or if this was funded through some debt or, or maybe even some, maybe that's an equity value. Um, and so get around was valued at 600 million, uh, before the acquisition. So this is surely going to get them close to the Unicorn level, which is the billion dollar evaluation. Um, one of the most active large investors in this overall space is Softbank. Uh, and they are one of the investors in and get around, uh, the investors in Drivy are index ventures and cafe innovation. Scot: [20:25] That's a, a pair of spaced, a investor out there. So a, the companies or the CEO's going to stay on and, and effectively run the European business. So now you kind of have this, this first look at a global, a car sharing company on the P to p side. So can be interesting to watch to see how that scales up. Tens of electrification news. Uh, we don't have time to go into all of it. Um, I thought the most interesting things we saw this week, uh, we have Ford invested 500 million, so Ford's very active also in mobility and they announced a $500 million investment in the electric pickup maker. Ravion. Uh, so ravion has a really cool, uh, electric pickup and this investment, uh, looks like it's going to have multi-facets so they're going to work on, um, some new technology for essentially using the rubion platform for a new Ford vehicle. Scot: [21:19] At the same time for it said that we're going to continue with their own internal development, um, which, uh, they specifically called out a plugin version of the Ford, the very popular Ford F-150 pickup. Um, I'm excited about this because, uh, you know, the service industry is where a lot of these trucks essentially go trucks and vans. And, uh, here it's 50. We would love to use a evs instead of a internal combustion engine vehicles. So it's gonna be great to see if we can kind of start to get more of the commercial vehicles electrified, uh, in this partnership. Certainly signals that that's on the way. One of the areas I watch really closely for electric vehicle news is China. Um, so, uh, they, they had kind of their annual report out. Um, the for last year, the, there's more triple the manufacturers of evs registered in China now and passenger vehicles sales, uh, for electric vehicles are going to exceed 1.6 million units this year. Scot: [22:17] And in 2019. Um, so, uh, so this huge kind of a bubble is forming there. Some people are calling it a bubble. Uh, you know, uh, there's a lot of negative connotations around bubbles, but I, I, you know, I think what we do see is the government of China is very supportive of the consumers are buying these. Uh, and the other interesting data point is, uh, that evs make up 4%, but they're on a track to get to 20% very quickly by 2025. Um, and so that's going to be like 7 million units. When you, when you talk about China, everything's multiplied almost by a factor of 10 from the u s so, so a lot going on there and it's going to be interesting to watch. Uh, one of the consequences of the excitement around electric vehicles in China is sales of traditional cars are really plunging, um, and they've been down substantially for the 10th straight month in a row from March. Scot: [23:11] Um, so the economy's slowing, they're a little bit due to trade tensions, uh, so that's causing it. But then, uh, electric vehicles are definitely a surging past the, the normal vehicles. Um, uh, back here in the U S if we look at 2018, um, the number of registrations for electric vehicles doubled in 2018. So that's good news here in the u s uh, so that's, there was 208,000 new electric vehicles registered. Um, and that was more than double those sold in 2017. Uh, another couple of fun facts. Uh, you can't, uh, whenever go out to California, um, you can't kind of drive around without seeing 20 or 30 Tesla's on the road. Uh, so California did account for about 50% or 95,000 of those. Uh, and then, uh, all this data's provided by one of the data trackers in the vehicle space called IHS Markit. They took this data and they projected it forward and they're showing over 350,000 new electric vehicles will be sold in the US in 2020. Scot: [24:14] Uh, and then, um, that's 2%, but then they do show it getting to 7%, which is kind of actually where, uh, we s we talked about China around the same timeframe, uh, by 2025. So, so just to recap, by 2025, uh, the pundits are projecting that we'll get to seven to 10% of new cars will be electric in both us and China. Now the, uh, the most exciting area of Vehicle 2.0, that, that you, you find the most news is, uh, autonomy. Uh, and this was a really big week for autonomy. So, uh, Monday Tesla had a full day, um, uh, kind of call it autonomy day where they talked about all the work that's going on in autonomy. And if you're remotely interested in this topic, I I strongly recommend watching it. Um, Elon Musk was there for most of it. He had his top engineers talking about a lot of the topics we talk about on this show. Scot: [25:08] If you don't have time. Some of the highlights for me, um, there's this really interesting debate and we've talked about it on the show before, but Tesla went really deep on their, their religion around this one. Uh, and it's the whole, you know, cameras versus Lidar. Um, so the current Tesla implementation, uh, uses four to six cameras. Uh, and their argument is that, you know, humans have two eyes, which are essentially cameras and they're able to plot a three d world without having to see use radar. Um, and then they talk about a lot of the negatives of radar, uh, which is the radar used for autonomy is lidar. Um, so that was really interesting. And then of course the, the Lidar folks came out and kind of said, you know, no, here's why you're wrong. So it's really interesting. It's going to be kind of a race to see who wins this. Scot: [25:54] And to me it's the most fascinating part of autonomy right now. His camera versus Lidar and who's going to, will there be a winner? Will they both coexist in this? Could be really interesting to watch that. Um, they spent a lot of time talking about, you know, how do you get this to a five nines reliability because we're dealing with humans and safety. Um, and one of the, one of the things they throw out there is based on their data, they believe their autopilot, which is their level to a implementation is seven times safer than human drivers. Um, so when they, you know, they're able to look at the data because Tesla has so much data, it's pretty fascinating. And they said that, uh, you know, I'm sure they're looking at crashes, incidents that, uh, you know, you're seven times safer using the just where they are today versus a human driver. Scot: [26:41] Um, when you, another statement made, and I haven't seen this refuted, is that when you look at all the autonomous vehicle data out there being generated, they have over 90% of it because they have such a large fleet compared to a lot of the smaller trials from the way Mo's and the cruises and the other other folks out there tackling this Uber. Um, so, so that's interesting. And then, you know, their, their argument is because these neural nets and machine learning systems are datadriven, whoever gets the most data of kind of gets to five nines first. So it's gonna be interesting to see if, if that, that bears out as well. Another thing they announced is by next year, and this is a, an Zealand thing, so you always have to take this with a grain of salt. He's usually off, usually nails these things, uh, in the prediction. Scot: [27:25] But the timing is usually off. So he said by next year they, they could in theory have, you know, uh, thousands of Robo taxis out there. Um, now one of the interesting metrics there is when they look at this Robo taxi, so a full autonomous taxi and their vision is as a Tesla owner, you can kind of check your car in and out of this fleet. Uh, and then there'll be a consumer APP for, for summoning a Robo Tesla. Um, the interesting stat is if you look at a human driven mile, so that's either you driving your car or ride share like an Uber, Lyft, you're looking at a total cost of ownership between two and $3 per mile, and they're projecting that the Tesla Robo taxis will get as low as 18 cents per mile. Um, so then when you, when you start to get that low, it does really start to change the car ownership model. Scot: [28:12] Um, you know, today you can certainly do enough nef if you do enough ride sharing your unit up upside down pretty quickly. But imagine if that was only 18 cents a mile. That really kind of is pretty compelling. Um, another stat he put out there as if you are a Tesla owner, you could make up to 30,000 a year just by putting your car into the, the Robo taxi fleet. Um, and then, so that was all really interesting around autonomy at the macro level. And then they went super micro, uh, and they announced that they have abandoned, uh, commercially available chipsets and they've developed their own custom chip, uh, for, for autonomy. Um, and you know, a lot of lot of, uh, excitement around this saying it's by far the, they're way ahead of everybody. They even started talking about the next generation is going to be three times better. Scot: [29:02] Um, and you know, because they're relying on vision, there's a lot of compute this having to happen in the vehicle to, to essentially do what the human brain is doing of creating a three d world from, from looking at images and comparing them. So they've moved a lot of that into hardware with this advanced chipsets. So that's, if you're really Super Geeky, um, there's tons of data out there and some really good articles. Uh, we'll link to some of the highlights in the show notes. Also in autonomy. One of the big players is General Motors and they have a division called cruise. Um, and they, uh, made some announcements on the 20th of April, uh, about, uh, some interesting things there. So first of all, they announced a partnership with Google. Um, and this is where, uh, one of the really interesting things with these autonomy companies is, uh, how they run the simulations. Scot: [29:49] So, uh, they talked about, uh, you know, the, they're up 25 x in simulation miles from, from the same time a year ago. Uh, and they've created a there in the world of video gaming. There's this engine called unreal that a lot of the video games are built on. So they actually create a real world version of the world in unreal, um, that they're driving these vehicles through based on all that lidar data. And they internally call it the matrix. So, so movie fans will, will enjoy that reference there. Um, so, so that was interesting. Um, and then all of these guys are really kind of starting to share data around, um, you know, how, how is their autonomous fleet working? Um, so one of the things that's interesting is, uh, they throw a little shade and talked about how they have 0.19 disengagements per thousand miles. Uh, and that's better than most of the other folks out there. Scot: [30:42] Um, uh, Waymo is a little bit better at 0.09. So what's happening is all these folks are running these simulations and trying to predict, you know, get, get better and better so that humans don't have to get involved in the autonomous driving today. Um, Tesla back over to Tesla, Tesla talked to, they had some really cool demos of what they call shadow mood. So they can, you know, they can actually, um, on a vehicle, they can put, uh, two versions of the software, the real mood and a shadow mode, and they can watch and say, all right, if we, we, we've seen this, this ab problem out there, let's say, um, when they talked about as, as people drifting into your lane. So they can actually, uh, you know, have a shadow version of the software on out on the fleet and watch for drifts and predict, you know, simulate in the vehicle what would have happened with both the real version. Scot: [31:36] Well they know what happened with the real version and then the shadow version and then learn from that without actually having to have the fleet have, you know, maybe more risky software. So it's really interesting things. Uh, when this, when, when, when your vehicle is largely software, uh, it kind of is mind blowing that you can be running effectively, you know, that, you know, who says they couldn't rent 10 versions of the simulation? They're on the vehicle. And it is interesting to think about all these simulated miles that are being driven as we speak. Um, it's a really great time to be an autonomy because, uh, we have the lift a IPO is done and now Uber is working on their IPO. So part of that process is you reveal this S-1, which is a document about everything that your company has been working on. Scot: [32:20] Uh, one of the more intriguing areas of the Uber S-1 was around their autonomous vehicle efforts and they also have a flying car effort. Um, so, uh, they're spending over 500 million a year in r and D in these kinds of technology programs, uh, for the future of vehicles. Uh, that's obviously pretty hefty. Um, and to, uh, a lot of folks when they first read this one, we're really concerned about that. Um, so, so kind of on the heels of that S-1 being revealed, Uber announced that they are going to effectively get a independent funding for that, that division. Um, it's not clear to me if it's an a complete spin off or what, uh, I think Uber will still large own, own kind of like 15 to 20% of it, but it's largely going to be funded by outside vendors, not the public markets, the investors. Scot: [33:09] There are Toyota, Denso, which is a parts maker, and the Softbank Fund that we've talked about already, and that Avi Division was given a $7 billion valuation through that investment. So, um, so Uber a is working with, you know, public and private funding to find the right balance of investment in, in these future vehicles. Um, the last thing on autonomy, uh, and this was a quick one. Uh, you know, they're the, the other big player is Google's alphabet division, which is called Waymo. Um, they announced a, a fleet of factory in Detroit. So, uh, they are going to, uh, create 400 jobs in Detroit over the next couple of years. And what the way Waymo works is they're not actually building their own vehicle. They're retrofitting existing vehicles. Um, so part of the plan, uh, here is by 2020, 20, 22, excuse me, they're going to have 62,000 Pacificas in 20,000 Jaguars outfitted with their self driving lidar based autonomy system, uh, and that'll get them cranked up to over a million trips per day. Scot: [34:18] Um, so it's going to be so, so we're, we're seeing all these efforts to really ramp up billions of dollars being invested in autonomy, uh, lidar versus cameras. So it's a really exciting time to be following this race out there. And we will continue to report, uh, what's going on and will continue to have guests on the show to help shed light on all these different topics and, uh, these kind of different technologies and, and thinking about who is going to win and who's going to lose or will we have multiple winners. And with that, we're out of time and we appreciate you listening. If you enjoyed today's show, be sure to head over to your favorite podcast listening app, uh, and give us five stars. Thanks for joining us and we'll be back next week.

Katy is UK Country Manager of Drivy, a business who want to give you a car, without having a car! Drivy gives user access to nearby vehicles using just their smartphone. We talked to them a few days before the launch of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone. This is not universally popular, but anything aimed at getting cars off the road and improving air quality in the capital is (in our eyes) a hugely positive step. Drive to the heart of this topical debate and find out how Drivy are aiming to create a flexible platform fit for the 21st century. On the 9th May we’re going ‘Live’ with a show you can join! We’ve got a packed program, we’re announcing the winner of our Tech Personality of the Year and we’ve got an Unbound ticket giveaway. Come join us: http://meetu.ps/e/GCFZd/zhMPk/f

Dans ce nouvel épisode des Talks du Wagon, nous sommes ravis de donner la parole à Nicolas Mondollot, CTO & Co-fondateur de Drivy.Fondée en 2010, Drivy s’est donné pour mission de démocratiser le partage de voitures entre particuliers. Présente en France, mais également dans 5 pays européens, le service compte plus de 2 millions d’utilisateurs. L’équipe de Drivy se compose de 126 collaborateurs, qui font avancer le projet depuis Paris, Berlin, Barcelone et Londres.Retour aujourd’hui sur le parcours de Nicolas Mondollot et les débuts de l’aventure Drivy !Identité sonore & réalisation : yoann.saunier.me Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Barcelona has been notoriously known for opposing the sharing economy and collaborative economy platforms such as Airbnb and Uber, as well as BlaBlaCar, even though the population are using the platforms more than most European citizens. We talked with Albert Canigueral, a thought leader in terms of innovative regulations and head of the Ouishare movement in Spain. Lucia Fernandez, another pioneer in the sharing economy community in Europe, working with Barcelona Activia, Ouishare and the local government in Barcelona, and Jaume Suñol, country manager of P2P car rental service Drivy. They all shared valuable insights from the relatively new world of the crowd capitalism, and how to fix the conflict between the sharing economy and authorities. Video: youtu.be/wF1U1v4072k

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Mieszkając w mieście prawdopodobnie dla większości z nas posiadanie własnego samochodu nie jest konieczne. Dlatego też od kilku lat zaczyna rozwijać się idea wypożyczania auta w obrębie konglomeracji miejskiej. Jednym z bardziej znanych tego typu projektów jest Car2Go, wykorzystujący Smarty w np. Stuttgart, Berlin czy Toronto. W Polsce dotychczas, pojęcie "sharingu" kojarzyło się raczej z rozwiązaniem typu rower miejski. Od jakiegoś czasu wypożyczanie aut (Traficar - Kraków) lub skuterów (Jeden ślad - Warszawa) zaczęło robi się popularniejsze. Jak działa carsharing: - podstawowym narzędziem jest smartphone, - dostawa usługi oferuje aplikację umożliwiającą wypożyczenie auta, - aktywacja pojazdu następuje za pomocą aplikacji/kodu QR itp., - wynajęty pojazd można zostawić w dowolnym miejscu w obrębie danego miasta. Zalety: - prostota obsługi, - okres próbny (darmowe minuty), - możliwe promocje (np. gdy wypożyczy się auto ze słabą baterią i zaparkuje się go przy stacji ładowania), - brak opłat za parking, - płaci się za użytkowanie pojazdu (brak kosztów ubezpieczeń, serwisu itp.). Oczywiście współdzielenie auta jednoznacznie kojarzy się z pojazdami elektrycznymi, jednak tak nie jest. Flota pojazdów może składać się zarówno z samochodów elektrycznych (np. Smart) i małych miejskich samochodów spalinowych (np. Ford Fiesta) w obrębie jednego miasta ("Cambio" CarSharing w Aachen). Dzięki temu można pokryć zróżnicowane zapotrzebowane odbiorców. Wypożyczać można też np. elektryczne skutery (np. Blinkee w Poznaniu i Warszawie). Usługa może być rozliczana: - za minutę, - za odległość, - poprzez abonament (np. 20 minut dziennie). Orientacyjne cenny: - 80 groszy za kilometr, - 50 groszy za minutę, - 10 groszy opłaty postojowej (gdy chcemy zarezerwować dany pojazd na później). Istnieją też prywatne formy carsharingu. Oznacza to, że pojazd wypożyczamy od osoby prywatnej, nie pośredniczy tu żadna firma. Całość realizowana jest oczywiście za pomocą aplikacji na naszym telefonie. Usługi takie oferuje np.: Tamyca orz Drivy (oba niedostępne w Polsce). W skrócie można powiedzieć, że funkcjonuje to na zasadzie BlaBlaCar, swój pojazd rejestrujemy w danym serwisie, po czym może zostać on wynajęty przez osobę trzecią. W USA pojawiają się głosy, iż carsharing w przyszłości wyeliminuje potrzebę posiadania własnego pojazdu. Jest to rozwiązanie bardziej elastyczne, tańsze, być może też lepsze dla producentów samochodów, gdyż może zapewnić stały abonamentowy dochód. Linki: https://jedenslad.pl https://www.traficar.pl https://www.car2go.com http://www.cambio-carsharing.de http://www.blinkee.pl http://www.poznan.pl/mim/info/news/w-poznaniu-powstanie-system-car-sharingu,108238.htmlch-wiecej-i-beda-tansze,12357397 https://www.tamyca.de https://www.drivy.de

Dans cet épisode, nous avons fait venir Julien Lausson, journaliste chez Numerama, afin de nous éclairer sur la mise en place de TES, le fichier qui collecte les données de 60 millions de français. Bonne émission ! 1. Connaissez-vous TES ? Un méga-fichier à la mise en place controversé Le fichage biométrique des français en 7 questions Quel est l’objectif du gouvernement ? Ce que ça change, avant, après la mise en place Pourquoi c’est contestable, comment pourrait-on mieux faire/faire autrement 2. Et voici l’avenir des Mac Qui veut des nouveaux Mac avec leurs nouvelles specs et leurs nouveaux prix ? Ne serait-ce pas la confirmation qu’un ordinateur, c’est finalement réservé aux usages bien spécifiques des pros et que le commun des mortels n’a finalement besoin que d’une tablette ou d’un smartphone ? Ou bien alors les Mac Pro sont aussi "Pro" que … la PS4 Pro ? On baisse le prix des adaptateurs ! 3. Et voici l’avenir des PC Touch bar ? Pffff… Microsoft l’a fait avant. Na. Windows 10 "Creator Update" Les Surface Studios ? Avec un potentiomètre ! C’est malade ! Des casques VR comme s’il en pleuvait : Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus … ! 4. Et aussi... Les boutons Amazon Dash arrivent en France : les précommandes sont ouvertes ! Rien que pour vos yeux : Google rachète Eyefluence. Après le rachat de VIV par Samsung, le S8 proposera l’assistant vocal. Scoumoune : Samsung rappelle 2.8M de … lave linge. Quand ça veut pas… Parviendront-ils à se refaire en Chine ? Nous Veyron bien. Après le Go, plus fun : Starcraft II. L’IA vaincra-t-elle ? (spoiler : oui, probablement) Puberté : Yahoo crée une IA obsédée sexuelle. Netflix hors-ligne arrivera bien… mais probablement pour les marchés émergents Elon Musk a de bonnes raisons pour comprendre ce qui fait exploser Space X Tesla se lance dans les tuiles solaires et il faudra payer les recharges Tesla. Intel s’envoie en l’air : 500 de ses drones volent en formation … lumineuse. YouTube en HDR Le saviez-vous ? Il existe déjà une évolution du SMS/MMS, c’est le RCS ! enfin un déploiement systématique chez Sprint ? (et en France aussi, c’est joyn !) Bonus : Tom : [Mini Metro(https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/mini-metro/id837860959?mt=8) Guillaume Poggiaspalla : Xenorace PC sur itch.io ! Guillaume : [Swift Playgrounds(http://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/), Drivy, Brothers : a tale of two sons (malgré les bugs) Participants : Julien Lausson, sur numerama et sur Twitter : @foxteh Tom Conte (@oxide) Guillaume Poggiaspalla, sur sur itch.io ! Et sur la Nintendo Switch ? Présenté par Guillaume Vendé (@guillaumevende sur Twitter) et sur Facebook avec une nouvelle page dédiée à mes activités en podcast ; dans un podcast (streetcast) plus intimiste : "La voix de Guillaume"

The Tech.eu podcast is a weekly show where Neil S W Murray and Roxanne Varza discuss the most interesting stories from the European technology scene. On this episode they discuss: - The record funding that was raised by European startups in Q1 of this year - 2 new funds for Europe - Accel partners as well as a new fund for Luxembourg startups - UK startup Playbrush, a game controller toothbrush - Our Editor Robin catches up with French startup Drivy - The Baltics and the rush to become the startup capital of the region For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Martin Mignot is an early stage investor at Index Ventures where he specialises in SaaS, marketplaces and mobile. He is actively looking after Index's investments in Algolia, Blablacar, Capitaine Train, Deliveroo, Drivy, Rad, Swiftkey and TheFamily. He worked on 50+ transactions to date, including Assistly, Auxmoney, BaseCRM, Cloud.com, Codecademy, DimDim, Factual, Farfetch, Flipboard, Funding Circle, Gluster, HouseTrip, Just-Eat, Lookout, Nastygal, Notonthehighstreet, Onefinestay, PeoplePerHour, TrustPilot, Soluto and SoundCloud.  Prior to joining Index, Martin was in the TMT team at UBS Investment Bank and co-founded the beauty subscription business Boudoir Prive (acquired by Joliebox/Birchbox) and a student web radio service (www.rsp.fm).   A special thank you to Mattermark for providing all the data displayed in today's show and you can find out more about Mattermark here!    Click To Play   In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) Where did it all start for Martin? What is the Martin Mignot story? 2.) How does Martin view venture as a career vs coming into it later on? Why does Martin think venture is now a viable career from the offset? 3.) Does Martin agree with Sheryl Sandberg’s statement, it doesn’t matter where you sit, as long as you have a seat on the rocketship? How important is valuation for Martin when making the decision? 4.) How Martin goes about sourcing the latest and greatest startups from the European ecosystem? 5.) How does Martin evaluate founders and consider their ability to execute on their plan, prior to making the investment? 6.) Talking of difficulty for startups attaining funding, what are your thoughts on VC founder alignment? You have said to focus before on the business and not the team, unless exceptional cases prevail, this is very strange for me to hear. Why is it you have adopted this stance and why do you feel it is best? Items Mentioned In Today's Episode: Martin's Fave Book: I Have America Surrounded by Tim Leary Martin's Fave Blog or Newsletter: Ben Evans Newsletter   As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Martin on Twitter here! If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session, you can follow him on Instagram here!