In America, you build an e-commerce company. In India, you build an e-commerce company, a logistics company, a payments company, and an internet adoption company — all at the same time.
Insurance was the hardest problem we had to solve. Nobody had ever underwritten peer-to-peer car sharing before. We basically had to invent the category.
The hardest part of fintech in Southeast Asia is not the technology. It is regulation. Every country has different rules, different licenses, different banking systems. You have to go country by country.
Building a gigafactory in northern Sweden — above the Arctic Circle — was either visionary or insane. We had cheap clean energy and political support. What we didn't have was enough skilled workers willing to move there.
Quality issues are real. We're fixing them. Building hardware at scale is harder than building an app.
Our riders went on strike for better pay. When your workforce is protesting, your model is broken.
Some students used Quizlet to share test answers. That's the dark side of open content.
95% less water, zero pesticides, year-round production. Indoor farming is technically perfect. Economically? Working on it.
Building a beautiful car is the easy part. Building a factory that produces thousands of them reliably — that's where companies live or die.
Noise was the problem we didn't expect. People love drone delivery until they hear it. We've spent years making our drones quieter.