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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1369 He Makes $30k/mo from Youtube While Building his App to 85,000 MAU

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

I started an exotic car rental company out of my dorm room at Georgia Tech. I was Director of Sales at Lamborghini Atlanta for 6 years. In 2016, I founded VINwiki with a team of developer friends as a way to crowd source vehicle history & empower stakeholders. I also hold the Cannonball Run World Record.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. My guest today is Ed Bullion. He started an exotic car company out of his dorm room at Virginia Tech and then was director of sales at Lamborghini Atlanta for six years. In 2016, he founded Vin Wickie with a team of developer friends as a way to crowdsource vehicle history and empower stakeholders. He also holds the Cannonball Run World Record. We'll talk more about that in a second. Ed, are you ready to take us to the top? I sure am. Thank you for having me.

0:23.7

What is the Cannonball Run world record? I'm sorry, it's Georgia Tech, not Virginia Tech.

0:28.4

Sorry, Georgia Tech. But what is the Cannonball World Record?

0:31.7

So Cannonball Run is not just an 1981 movie. It was actually an event that was organized by Brock Yates a car and driver

0:37.9

magazine in the 1970s. And it stopped in 1979 with some kind of continuation events, but now

0:44.4

it's just idiots like me that go out and try to see how fast we can drive. So in 2013,

0:48.8

I set the world record driving from New York to Los Angeles in 28 hours, 50 minutes.

0:53.8

And so what was like the average, you know, mile per hour?

0:57.2

That's 100.3 mile an hour average.

0:59.5

Wow, that's incredible.

1:00.8

And how did you, I mean, so how did you just speed everywhere or did you strategically pick

1:03.9

the roads or how did you do it?

1:05.7

A little bit of both.

1:06.6

Obviously, there was a lot of strategy involved, a lot of problems to solve. And it's kind of a fun, multi-variable equation that for me, at the time, I was the director of sales at Lamborghini, Atlanta.

1:15.1

So it was kind of an awesome way to express myself a personal branding project, but also this sort of decade-long passion project to attach myself to.

1:23.9

And it's an interesting group of people that still care about this as an idea. But, you know,

1:27.9

we had three radar detectors and two laser jammers and an ambulance traffic light changer,

1:31.8

a police scanner, CV radio, three navigation systems and everything you could ever have to

1:36.0

avoid detection in such a drive. That's so funny. Okay, Vin Wiki, what's the company doing how to make

1:40.7

money? So it's a social vehicle history reporting platform. So we kind of

1:45.0

describe it as like a crowdsourced version of Carfax. So we let anybody post any information to any

1:50.7

car by its bin or by its license plate. And it was really grown out of just a group of friends

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