After spending significant time as both a driver and a passenger of ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft while in the military, Ryan Green saw a problem: drivers didn’t have enough data. A strong drive toward entrepreneurship prompted Ryan to launch Gridwise in 2016 and address that problem with a crowdsource-powered app that empowers rideshare and delivery drivers to earn up to 39% more per hour.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Muliple members of Ryan’s Family
- Elon Musk
- Hugh Hefner founder of Playboy magazine
When business started difficulties overcame:
“really proving out that there was demand for this idea that I had for Gridwise . I think through my past experience… The biggest mistakes we made was getting stuck in what I would call the product bubble where we focused a lot on product but not enough on customer development. And so what we ended up doing was building a product… You bring a product to market, you launch it and there’s not anybody there to use it and the people that are there to use it aren’t really interested in it. You didn’t really build something that fitted their needs”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Book by Gino Wickman
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist Book by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Book by Ben Horowitz
- Gap Selling: Getting the Customer to Yes: How Problem-Centric Selling Increases Sales by Changing Everything You Know About Relationships, Overcoming Objections, Closing and Price Book by Keenan
Favourite Quote:
- “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe” Abraham Lincoln
- “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt
Recommended Online Resources:
- Slack is where work flows It’s where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done
- Seamless.AI – The World’s Best Sales Leads. Acquire Your Total Addressable Market Instantly. Access millions of B2B profiles and contact info at Seamless AI
- Superhuman – The fastest email experience ever made. Blazingly fast. Keyboard shortcuts. Calendar. Undo send. Remind me. Send later. Fly through your inbox twice as fast as before. Achieve Inbox Zero. Carbon Mode. Manage Multiple Inboxes. Show Read Statuses. Offline Mode.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“one, is don’t try to build your vision from day one. I think a lot of people who come into starting a company have the vision and have the passion associated with how they want to grow the company. But everyone wants to jump in and try to build this sleek, perfect mobile app or web app from day one. And what you end up doing is you end up building something from day one that most likely people don’t want”…[Listen for More]
More About Ryan Green:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” Oprah Winfrey
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ryan Green:
- “being able to be quick to say no to opportunities. It’s not say that you should say no to every opportunity that presents itself but I think building more of a way of framework and how you assess opportunities is really important. And to make sure that you can get to a no as quickly as possible”
- “the secret to success is being very goal oriented is definitely a key aspect to success”
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