Mandeep Patel on Energy Tech Startups

Mandeep Patel is the Founder and CEO of ElecTrip. For business leaders, lawyers, and consultants, ElecTrip offers city-to-city, door-to-door transportation in private, professionally driven Teslas to maximize productivity. Mandeep shares the trials and tribulations of building a business during COVID.Mandeep Explores:How the solution provided by ElecTrip allows businesses to increase productivity while reducing the carbon footprint of travel - 0:22How Mandeep and co-founder Taylor Zhao saw the stars align to create a clear path for the business model behind ElecTrip - 4:50How Uber and Lyft affected ElecTrip’s ability to recruit good drivers and scale quickly - 6:50How bootstrapping drove innovation and efficiency as ElecTrip grew - 11:50How Mandeep had to navigate COVID by putting ElecTrip on hold - 13:45What they don't teach you in startup school about being a young founder - 17:50Why entrepreneurship is more like playing StarCraft than Chess - 21:30Why Houston tech entrepreneurs are different from those in Austin or California - 24:45Where the best Banh Mi and Pizza is in Houston - 28:57How traveling internationally showed Mandeep how concentrated, localized emissions are awful for people who live with it, and EVs are going to change how people live - 32:20Where charging infrastructure should be deployed to accelerate EV adoption - 37:00Book a ride with ElecTrip: https://www.electrip.us/Mandeep on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandeep-patel/ Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.io

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