A third-generation bus operator learned computer science, built companies on three continents, and returned to an old family industry with a new instrument: software. Now Kolors is testing how far an asset-light mobility network can travel.

He found a continental software problem hiding inside spreadsheets, PDFs and millions of nearly identical parts. His answer was to make the automotive aftermarket legible - one catalog, reseller and country at a time.

A nameplate in New York helped bring him home to Colombia. Then a clumsy bank payment gave him the problem he wanted to spend years fixing.