Where did your What major challenges did What piece of advice would entrepreneurial journey with you overcome along the way? you give to aspiring founders? Salesforce begin? I was driving a leased car and started to Timing was the biggest challenge of all. Try to find a network of other wonder why there wasn’t an app to refer LinkedCar launched in January 2020, entrepreneurs to turn to for advice—an Mario Schraepen to whenever, and wherever, you switch three months before the pandemic. We accelerator, for example, can be a great cars, that focuses on both the driver and had just signed two big customers and source of support. Listen to people who CEO & Founder, LinkedCar the vehicle, and combines the relevant were riding a wave of enthusiasm. But have started their own businesses and LinkedCar is a customer-first mobility platform for the automotive information in one centralized place. in March, everything collapsed. No cars don’t be afraid of asking for advice. This industry, working to help companies shift to a loyalty-driven were being sold or leased during this is my third startup and I’m still asking mindset with a focus on interactivity and customer experience. We started building the app, but time and the industry had to prioritize for advice. after speaking to lease and insurance survival over innovation. companies, we discovered that if we could provide real-time vehicle For this reason, future-proofing the information such as the number of miles business is very important to us. The driven and whether the driver drove Salesforce Platform is highly flexible safely, it could transform their entire and this means there are different ways business models. So, we expanded. you can go about implementing new features. Our approach is not to wait until I chose to build on the Salesforce you hit a conflict to make a change but to The Salesforce ecosystem helps Platform because LinkedCar’s ultimate keep implementing updates that ensure focus is on functionality for our quality and help create a product that is implement LinkedCar within international customers. Salesforce enables this by useful to our customers for a long time. markets, while we continue making the covering all of the basics like security, multilingual, multi-currency, and business product the best it can be. processes and flows.