Sam Ryan

Co-Founder & CEO @gozeelo, the smart commuter bus platform tackling car dependency in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇿🇦🚌 chatting about company building, mobility and #COYS

[The Spurs Express @TheSpursExpress]

📊🚨| #Tottenham loanee, Luka Vuskovic is the HIGHEST RATED CB in Europe's top five leagues this season according to @WhoScored.

◉ 7.32 - Luka Vuskovic ⭐️
◎ 7.26 - Gabriel Magalhães
◎ 7.26 - Nico Schlotterbeck

World class talent. ⚪️🇭🇷

[The Spurs Express @TheSpursExpress]

🚨| Mauricio Pochettino is not regarded as an option to be the next Manchester United manager.

Senior Manchester United figures expect him to return to #Tottenham Hotspur when his contract with the US runs out after the World Cup.

@MarkOgden_

[Santosh Sankar ⚡ @santoshsankar]

One of the grittiest founders I know! @SamRyan17 @GoZeelo

#weAreDynamo

@ThisIsDynamo

[Peter Campbell @Petercampbell1]

One company, @GoZeelo, runs tech for employee bus services.

It has received *hundreds* of requests for new bus routes from companies since March so that workers don't have to drive in.

Full story:
https://t.co/FZ2W26C9Wt

[Sam Ryan @SamRyan17]

@IanKingSky @TonySmurfit @collectivedairy @DavidMalpassWBG @Brewin_Guy @IntlSOS @SkyNews Thanks for having me @IanKingSky @GoZeelo

[Sam Ryan @SamRyan17]

@NettletonJames @barneswilliams Thank you @NettletonJames for all the support!! There wasn’t much to back then but you did! Hope you are keeping well

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Mass transit group Swvl confirms estimated $100M acquisition of UK start-up Zeelo https://t.co/NGsZ24ODlW by @mikebutcher

[Sam Ryan @SamRyan17]

VCs create this world. Nonsense.

[Jack Raines @Jack_Raines]

1) 🚨A DECADE OF DECEPTION FROM FAST CEO: DOMM HOLLAND 🚨

Fast is closing down, largely because the company was burning an absurd $10M a month in 2021 while only generating $50k per month in sales.

I checked out the history of their CEO, Domm Holland, and it is... interesting.

[Sam Ryan @SamRyan17]

@barneswilliams @CFCspares @facevalue_CFC @CFCtickets1905 @bluesatwembley @SparesCFC @CFCTickets21_22 Getting out the armchair?

[Sam Ryan @SamRyan17]

For anyone who has followed the Uber story

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends.

Uber's time is up.

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[Silicon Canals - European technology news @SiliconCanals]

Smart #bus commuting platform @GoZeelo raises €10.1M to accelerate its services in #Europe and #Africa.

Know more here: https://t.co/8hu6TveZ1I

@SamRyan17, @barneswilliams, @etf_partners, @InMotionVC

#Funding #TechNews #Innovation

[Sifted @Siftedeu]

💥 UK bus service @GoZeelo has raised $12m led by @etf_partners to grow its platform that helps staff living in the same area commutes to the office 🚌

It operates in the UK, the US and South Africa and says 100k people use its services:

https://t.co/DGpqSzGPcZ

[Zeelo @GoZeelo]

⚡🚌⚡ Super excited to announce that Zeelo will be deploying our first fully electric commuter programmes later this quarter, the first of its kind in the UK.

Read more from our CEO @SamRyan17 here:

https://t.co/JzBmfRB0wf

[Sam Ryan @SamRyan17]

I contributed to this piece by @TheChrisPrice on the future of commuting. Lots of interesting perspectives. Here’s one: “....this is the start of commuting as a benefit. This might be the point where the commute becomes the responsibility...of the employer” @GoZeelo

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Travelling to work has become a thing of the past for many

https://t.co/HooOzCloC7

[Zeelo @GoZeelo]

Great to be featured on @Siftedeu as one of the startups that are fighting climate change. Sustainability is at the heart of what we do every day and in 2020 we saved over 3,560 tonnes in CO2 emissions. That's the equivalent of planting 186,059 trees🍃

https://t.co/bM6A5cwMDm

[Zeelo @GoZeelo]

2020 has been a challenging year for all businesses, so we would like to say THANK YOU to all of our partners for their support during these uncertain times. We're proud to have been able to support our partners with reliable and safe, smart bus services throughout the year.

[Barney Williams @barneswilliams]

Delighted to see @GoZeelo featured in UK's highest-growth startups @CityAM @SamRyan17

https://t.co/s2GF6wrA5s

[Sam Ryan @SamRyan17]

@gupta_james We’re very lucky and doing well thankfully but I would still give it all up to to get past all of this! How about you guys?

[Sam Ryan @SamRyan17]

@gupta_james You’ve cheered up this gloomy Saturday evening for me, thank you. Keep going!

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

Fall seems to be the season for Mobility-as-a-Service panels and debates.

Speaking at several has led me to reflect on my own MaaS journey, summarized in the 🧵 below (w/article links).

TLDR: Despite great promise and hype, very few people use MaaS today. We need new models.