Electric scooter sharing in Russia. Ilya Salnikov, founder of Sun Rent

Опубликовано: 28 Январь 2025
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Ilya Salnikov, founder of Sun Rent, talks about the e-scooter sharing market in Russia

In 2014, Ilya Salnikov started importing electric unicycles, hoverboards, scooters, and other electric vehicles. Together with his team, they sold, rented, and provided maintenance services. This is how Sun Wheel was born.

After 6 years, the team focused on developing software and expanding a partner network (franchise) for e-scooter sharing. This is how Sun Rent was born, which is now used by over 1 million people in over 50 cities.

In this episode, we talked to Ilya about the market, competition, and the future of e-scooter sharing.

Timecodes:

00:00 Intro
00:40 Business and history of Sun Rent
12:35 Sun Rent franchise
29:09 Competition and market
39:40 Risks and negative media attention
45:14 Future of the market and the company
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