#126 – Ryan Green | Gridwise – Serving Drivers, Data for the Gig Economy & Evolving as a Leader

Ryan Green is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gridwise, an app for gig economy drivers to maximize their earnings and profitability. Key topics in this conversation include: The complexity of effectively planning a day as a gig economy driver, and how Gridwise helps Why Gridwise avoided the obvious path to monetization Doing the unscalable How Gridwise grew to over 200k active drivers in the US Making sense of data and Gridwise Analytics Links: Show notes: http://brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/ryangreen LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanagreen/; https://www.linkedin.com/company/gridwise/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/gridwise_io Gridwise website - https://gridwise.io/ Gridwise app download - https://gridwise.io/download/?shortlink=5805445c&af_sub1=ToF&c=website&pid=Website&cta=free%20download Ryan’s Bio Ryan Green is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gridwise, an app for gig economy drivers to maximize their earnings and profitability. Since launching in 2017, Gridwise has raised $20.4M in funding, with their latest Series A raising $12.7M led by Crosslink Capital, Autotech Ventures, and others. With 200k+ active drivers nationwide, Gridwise empowers those in the gig economy through demand insights, activity tracking, and a marketplace of gig worker benefits. Before Gridwise, Ryan served as an active duty Naval Officer after graduating from the United States Naval Academy. Following his time in the military, he worked the FX trading desk at PNC, executing multi-million trades for clients. About Gridwise Launched in 2017, Gridwise is a rapidly growing platform that has developed a suite of gig mobility solutions that enable gig workers, cities, and enterprises to leverage the most powerful gig mobility data insights in the industry to empower their operations.  The Gridwise app is the leading business platform for gig economy drivers, helping them maximize their earnings and track their business performance all in one place. Their app is empowering 10% of all US drivers to run their business with unique gig demand insights, earnings and activity tracking, performance reporting, and a marketplace of gig worker benefits. Growing one of the largest gig-driver networks in the mobility industry has enabled Gridwise to amass the most comprehensive gig mobility dataset in the industry and capitalize on a $50B data-as-a-service opportunity through Gridwise Analytics. Gridwise is on its way to becoming the de facto operating platform for gig drivers and offer solutions that empower the entire ecosystem to improve the way people and goods move. Future of Mobility: The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, effective, and accessible mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields. linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/ brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/ Edison Manufacturing: At Edison Manufacturing, our specialty is building and assembling highly complex mobility products in annual quantities of ten to tens of thousands utilizing an agile, robust, and capital-light approach.