Marathon Series: The Estonian bike sharing startup

Teet Praks, coModule, European Founder, International Founders

I’m embarrassed to admit that I was surprised to learn that Estonia is one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world.

Kids start programming in first grade. There’s more startups here than anywhere else. Joining me here is Teet Praks. Teet is the founder of coModule, a bike and scooter sharing service.

I want to find out how he built it up.

Teet Praks

coModule

Teet Praks is the founder of coModule, a bike sharing service.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. I came to Estonia to get to know entrepreneurship here. To be honest with you, Teet, I’m going to be fully honest with you, when I was considering going to Europe, I thought Germany is the place to go. And then this guy, Ragnar Sass, am I pronouncing his name right? Look at me, I’m becoming Estonian. He comes to San Francisco. He’s the co-founder of Pipedrive. He says, “Andrew, I’m here to convince you to come to Estonia.” I said, “Great. It’s going to be interesting to go to Kiev.” He goes, “No, no. It’s Estonia go.” “Okay, great.” I pretended I remembered or knew where it was on the map.

I had no idea. But he was so full of fire. He so convinced me by telling me about entrepreneurship here in Estonia, that I said,...

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