This week Oliver interviews Dmitri Pivovarov from Bolt Mobility, which is one of the largest ride hailing players in Europe, and has been quietly building a micromobility business which recently announced it was expanding to challenge Tier as the largest micromobility operator in Europe in 2021. Oliver uses this episode to dig into the interplay between ride hailing and micromobility, how Bolt has built the business, and get an update on the overall shared micrombobility market in Europe. It’s a great interview.

Specifically, they dig into:

- The history of Bolt Mobility, and it’s origins as Taxify

- Clarify that they are indeed, not endorsed by Usain Bolt

- Talk about the nature of mobility markets, and servicing this demand with either ride hailing or micromobility

- How the Bolt team sought to approach building the micromobility business, and how they’ve built a very cost-effective operations engine for scaling

- The unique design points from their new custom hardware

- The state of the other players in the European market