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a $ 60-million startup. I spent the next seven years scaling their supply chain to support a $ 1-billion business and eventual IPO.
“ My first experience in the micromobility industry came after Sonos when I led operations for a startup called Boosted that was designing and manufacturing a line of premium electric skateboards. Lime ultimately acquired IP associated with Boosted’ s products. I had since moved on to another startup, but one day, I got a call from Joe Kraus, Lime’ s President, who wanted to talk to me about an opportunity to lead Lime’ s supply chain team. I was aware of the nascent( and chaotic) shared micromobility business from my Boosted experience, but the more
Joe and I talked about it, the more I could see how the business might succeed where others had failed. I loved the company’ s mission, and was impressed by the smart, driven people that were coming together to make this business happen.”
An interdisciplinary approach
Given John’ s experience across complex companies and emerging markets, we’ re keen to explore what motivates him to take on these challenges.“ I’ ve always been a curious person who gravitated toward solving hard, interesting problems,” he shares.“ Looking back as a kid growing up in Janesville, Wisconsin, I simply would never have
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