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Toby Sun and the distance between a good idea and the next corner
Lime’s co-founder began with a familiar urban nuisance: a trip too short to drive and too long to walk. From 125 campus bicycles to a second act in fruit tea, his career keeps returning to the habits of everyday life.
Rodrigo Martinez Put the Bus Route Inside the Software
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.
Candice Xie
Candice Xie is the co-founder and CEO of Veo, the micromobility company she started in 2017 from West Lafayette, Indiana, while still in her twenties. A finance analyst by training rather than a Silicon Valley engineer, she built Veo into the first North American shared-micromobility operator to reach unadjusted EBIT profitability - reaching roughly $52 million in revenue on about $16 million of total funding, while competitors raised billions and flamed out. Calling herself an 'anti-tech bro' CEO and the 'tortoise' of the scooter race, she designs vehicles in-house, expands one city at a time, and won the largest exclusive micromobility contract in the United States with Denver.
Wayne Ting
Wayne Ting is the CEO of Lime, the world's largest shared electric vehicle company, where since 2020 he has led the green scooter-and-bike fleet from cash-burning startup to the first profitable micromobility business of its kind. A Taiwan-born Nebraska kid turned Columbia class president, Obama policy advisor, and Uber chief of staff, he has spent his career on the operational side of big consumer platforms.