Fill'er up! – Adam Cooper, Co-founder of GasMob – The Power of Technology, Bringing Fuel to Vehicles with the Ease of an App!
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Adam Cooper, co-founder of GasMob (gasmob.co), provides an interesting overview of how technology is changing everything we do, even how we fill our gas tanks. To say Cooper is pumped about the future of GasMob's fuel-filling technology would be an understatement as he is brimming with ideas about the many benefits his company's app can offer to individuals and businesses everywhere.
Co-founders Adam and Brad Cooper grew up in the thriving metropolis of NYC, specifically Manhattan, and through the years they observed that the increased need for residential properties in a city with a finite amount of land, surrounded by water, was creating a desperate situation for motorists who sought an easy fill-up. In fact, Adam Cooper states that there are as few as fifteen gas stations remaining to serve an estimated 1.4 million households that own a vehicle that requires gas. With massive real estate projects taking over most of the incredibly valuable lots once inhabited by petroleum resellers, the majority of gas locations exist, inconveniently for many, either on the northern tip or western edge of the island. Cooper discusses how he wanted to find a solution to the long lines, inconvenient locations, and the hassle, thus GasMob was born. With a background in finance and a strong passion for technology, Cooper reached out to his current partner, a respected oil and gas family, to launch the service.
Cooper talks about their platform and their initial foray into offering custom solutions as an amenity for residential and commercial properties, as opposed to a simply on-demand market model, though Cooper does expect to fully expand into on-demand further as well. Cooper provides details about how the service works for users, from initial sign up, to scheduling, and how property owners are pleased to have an additional amenity to attract residents. Cooper relates how it is as simple as opening your gas tank cover, locking your car, and letting GasMob handle the rest—filling your tank in the scheduled window you select and locking up your gas tank afterward, all while you enjoy your day or engage in work, never having to consider it or be hassled to do it yourself.
Cooper discusses the development of the app and how his team at GasMob is closely following every technology advance to continually update and improve their services. GasMob was brought to life by a team of talented developers led by a CTO who understands that technology and innovation go hand in hand. And as technology advances, their team continues to seek opportunities to partner and expand.
The gas delivery guru discusses GasMob's push to partner with entities that can help to capitalize their future endeavors as they continually innovate and target emerging markets. He talks about their work with companies who have fleets and some of the newer companies that could be in need. He describes their delivery trucks, the sizes and dimensions, and how their delivery vehicles are designed specifically for each unique purpose. Additionally, Cooper provides specific detail on the backend portal that fleet owners can view to dig deep into the individual analytics for their entire fleet. And as Cooper states, currently the company's focus is to provide the absolute best service for fuel delivery, but he expects that the future will see GasMob expand into other auto-related services as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. My guest is Adam Cooper. |
| 0:32.0 | He's the founder of Gas Mob and the website is Gas Mob |
| 0:36.2 | MOB. So Adam how you doing today? |
| 0:39.2 | Good. Thanks for having me Richard. It's a pleasure to be here and discuss Gas Mom. So wherever you want to take this, let's go. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah, yeah, tell me what's the premise of Gas Mom? So the premise of Gas Mom, I guess coming back from the, or going back to the beginning days, you know, I grew up in Manhattan where every gas station was being bought out by the real estate companies to kind of build some high-rise even get better use of the property. |
| 1:04.0 | So there was a very short, I would say, |
| 1:08.0 | the environment of gas stations in Manhattan where basically there was probably three to five left in all the city and you know everyone was having a problem finding gas station getting in and once we found it there was a long line. |
| 1:22.0 | So I had this idea to like have the idea. it and once we found it there was just long line. |
| 1:22.5 | So I had this idea to like have the on-demand fueling in Manhattan. |
| 1:27.6 | However, through my finance days I had some partners in the oil industry who I kind of brought this |
| 1:31.5 | to first and they said, you know know it's a great idea but you know the |
| 1:35.4 | the demographic in Manhattan just doesn't necessarily make sense with how small it is and the streets being small and the park |
| 1:42.2 | garage being tiny and obviously it's not a driven |
| 1:45.4 | focused city like Houston or Florida is so they said we should definitely do this |
| 1:49.5 | and let's partner up and bring it to Houston to start. So we ended up going to Houston about four months ago and we took the angle of approaching large real estate companies with huge portfolios, not only nationwide but worldwide and we kind of offer a custom solution as an amenity for the specific residential and commercial properties. |
| 2:09.0 | So it's a little bit different than an on-demand model which we are actually going to get into in the near future. |
| 2:14.5 | However, in the beginning, we wanted to have set destinations and locations. |
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