Episode #23
Olivier Bonnet // CTO at BlaBlaCar
This time I had Olivier Bonnet, the CTO of BlaBlaCar in the podcast. BlaBlaCar is the carpooling company: They own the market. They are active in 22 Countries, have 100M+ Users and acquired 12 other carpooling companies. Olivier, the CTO, joined me to talk about:
- How his time at Apple taught him to think long term
- 100 million users, 12 acquisitions: The strategy behind BlaCar
- The complexity of route planning š
- How writing šļø helps people at Bla to structure their thoughts: They are writing press releases for new features, Amazon style.
- You build it, you run it! How technology decision discipline works at BlaCar
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