Steven Nelmans

valuation like nowadays.

So it was about eight years ago that I founded the company together with a couple of co-founders.

It was a B2B car sharing company, something completely different.

But then the company was named one of the fastest growing Dutch tech startups for a couple of years in a row.

We closed almost all the big employers in the Netherlands as our customers and really got that network effect going.

And that was pretty cool.

So I took a step back a couple of years ago and now merged with the market leader in the Netherlands and the total companies as a big valuation.

They're the Dutch market leader right now in car sharing in general.

That's true.

I was a young guy.

I did not have a lot of experience.

My co-founder is neither.

So we were learning everything on the job.

We raised funding as well.

We did a couple of funding rounds that were not the best valuations for us at that moment.

So we made a lot of beginner mistakes in that sense.

So it grew into a beautiful company and it's helping.

It's basically transferring millions of kilometers a week from gasoline to electric.

right now which is making a sustainable and good impact but yeah we build a huge company for the sake of the company but not necessarily for the sake of us and that's not necessarily what motivates me I love to build big companies and highly scalable and just basically keep on challenging myself and I think in the end you will get the rewards for that but yeah it's more to say more to show that the growth stage which we are entering right now

It's something that I've already seen once.