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Austin Ligon and the price of telling the truth
A Quaker objection to haggling helped shape CarMax. For its co-founder and first CEO, an honest price was the beginning of a much longer experiment in how a business should work.
Carlos García Ottati and the price of a promise
A difficult car sale gave the Kavak founder an idea. Building a business around trust would require workshops, credit, software, and a reckoning with his own promises.
Lawrence Merritt and the price of trust
He helped turn used-car trading into an online business in Turkey. The harder test came when Lawrence Merritt had to explain why one part of that business would close.
Stephen Seibel and the long road to an easier car purchase
A one-way ticket to Halifax put Stephen Seibel on the road to building Clutch. Nearly a decade later, the founder is still working on the parts of car buying that a website alone cannot fix.
Amit Kakkar and the distance between a car and its keys
From Toyota and tractor finance to Spinny Capital, Amit Kakkar has worked on the money that makes vehicles move. His career follows a question every buyer eventually asks: how does wanting a car become being able to own it?
Niraj Singh and the price of a promise
After two ventures closed, Niraj Singh built Spinny around a costly conviction: a used-car seller should take responsibility for the car. His route from Daltonganj to an IPO filing runs through a dictionary, a second entrance exam and ten parking spaces.
Dan Park and the price of a second chance
At Clutch, Dan Park went from expanding across Canada to fighting for the next payroll. The recovery put his experience in banking, venture capital and delivery to a rather unforgiving test: selling used cars.