Mandeep Patel on Energy Tech Startups

Energy Tech Startups

Mandeep Patel is the Founder and CEO of ElecTrip. For business leaders, lawyers, and consultants, ElecTrip offers city-to-city, door-to-door transportation in private, professionally driven Teslas to maximize productivity. Mandeep shares the trials and tribulations of building a business during COVID.

Mandeep Explores:

• How the solution provided by ElecTrip allows businesses to increase productivity while reducing the carbon footprint of travel - 0:22
• How Mandeep and co-founder Taylor Zhao saw the stars align to create a clear path for the business model behind ElecTrip - 4:50
• How Uber and Lyft affected ElecTrip’s ability to recruit good drivers and scale quickly - 6:50
• How bootstrapping drove innovation and efficiency as ElecTrip grew - 11:50
• How Mandeep had to navigate COVID by putting ElecTrip on hold - 13:45
• What they don't teach you in startup school about being a young founder - 17:50
• Why entrepreneurship is more like playing StarCraft than Chess - 21:30
• Why Houston tech entrepreneurs are different from those in Austin or California - 24:45
• Where the best Banh Mi and Pizza is in Houston - 28:57
• How traveling internationally showed Mandeep how concentrated, localized emissions are awful for people who live with it, and EVs are going to change how people live - 32:20
• Where charging infrastructure should be deployed to accelerate EV adoption - 37:00

Book a ride with ElecTrip: https://www.electrip.us/

Mandeep on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandeep-patel/