Inside the $100M dollar scooter sharing startup Spin

Euwyn Poon, Spin

Today’s guest runs one of many companies that I think are not just changing my life, but changing the lives of many people. I remember when I first started to see electric scooters show up in San Francisco. It made so much more sense than waiting for a car to come pick you up.

We’re living in a city with hardly any rain, hardly any terrible weather. And suddenly these electric scooters showed up all over the city.

Today’s guest is the creator of one of the first scooters that I ever saw here in San Francisco. Euwyn Poon is the co-founder of Spin, a stationless electric scooter sharing company.

Euwyn Poon

Spin

Euwyn Poon is the co-founder of Spin, a stationless electric scooter sharing company.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy. And I’m about to just get super excited about today’s guest. Here’s why. I really believe that entrepreneurs change, that startups, that new businesses change the way that we live. And I think that we just take them for granted. And we get the sense that it’s just another startup by just someone else who’s about to try to get rich and, I don’t know, dominate or something. I think we’ve gotten a little jaded.

Today’s guest runs one of many companies that I think are not just changing my life, but changing the lives of many people. I don’t remember the date but I remember when I first started to see electric scooters show up in San Francisco and I realized this makes so much more sense than waiting for a car to come pick you up, which takes for freaking ever, it takes up a long time in the road and frankly is not that...

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