Disclosure certainty 4/5 debate potential 2/5

Boobin: Fuel Panda plans to retrofit delivery trucks for EV charging

Pavan Boobin · EP 349: He's Really Smart So Why'd He Quit for Startup? · Jul 8, 2016 · at 9:15

Fuel Panda founder Pavan Boobin explains to Nathan Latka how his mobile refueling company will adapt if electric and autonomous vehicles gain widespread adoption.

0:00 / 0:16exact quote · 16.4s
720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“We don't look at ourselves as just, like, doing gas forever. We are more like a mobile energy station, for say. So, like, we would retrofit our trucks with a mobile charging stations. It could be diesel. It could be hydrofuels. So, we actually get to mix and match.”

quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →

More from Pavan Boobin

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fuel Panda is cash-flow positive on route operations
“So far, like, we are actually, we are running cashflow positive on our operations”
Pavan Boobin Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 10:23 EP 349: He's Really Smart So Why'd He Quit for Startup?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Boobin: Fuel Panda acquires new customers for approximately $5 each
“Close to five dollars.”
Pavan Boobin Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 12:08 EP 349: He's Really Smart So Why'd He Quit for Startup?
Disclosure
500 Startups invested $125,000 for a 5% stake in Fuel Panda
“No, it's one 25 K for five percent of the business.”
Pavan Boobin Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 3:52 EP 349: He's Really Smart So Why'd He Quit for Startup?
Insight
Boobin: Whiteboards make it impossible to fake abstract business ideas
“I think you know, it's really impossible to bullshit on whiteboards. Like once you have a whiteboard and you make, even if it's an abstract conversation, start drawing pictures, it just makes it so clear.”
Pavan Boobin Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 15:50 EP 349: He's Really Smart So Why'd He Quit for Startup?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fuel Panda serves over 100 customers doing 70 to 80 refuels weekly
“So in last few months we are working with you know, more than a hundred customers and we're doing around six, 70 to 80 refuels every week.”
Pavan Boobin Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 2:45 EP 349: He's Really Smart So Why'd He Quit for Startup?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fuel Panda has delivered over 21,000 gallons across nearly 1,000 refuels
“You know, we've done more than 20, 20, 21,000 gallons of fuel. We're getting close to a thousand refueled so far in the last few months.”
Pavan Boobin Jul 8, 2016 ▶ 3:08 EP 349: He's Really Smart So Why'd He Quit for Startup?
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.