In 2009, with the great recession setting in and business drying up, our next guest, a real estate developer at the time, started looking for a new way to utilize his sales talents. Soon after, he visited his alma mater, Florida State University, where he kept hearing from students about how taxis were expensive, parking in town was non-existent and DUIs scared everybody. So he scribbled on a cocktail napkin: “Green Operated Transportation Carrying Humanity Around”. And his new company was born. No, it's not Uber or Lyft. In fact it's nothing like anything you may have heard about in this space because it's electric vehicle transportation for students, and it's also free...and ten universities are now on board.
Mike Switzer interviews Sean Flood, CEO of Gotcha Ride, based in Charleston, SC.