{"id":20668,"date":"2020-06-18T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/stories\/collaborative_strategy_drives_via_success\/"},"modified":"2022-03-04T23:12:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T04:12:32","slug":"collaborative_strategy_drives_via_success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/stories\/collaborative_strategy_drives_via_success\/","title":{"rendered":"A Collaborative Strategy Drives Via\u2019s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One day, Oren Shoval wasn\u2019t able to get a seat after waiting for a sherut<\/em>, a shared taxi running along a fixed route in Israel. He called his friend, Daniel Ramot, and asked, \u201cWhat if you could use a smartphone to book your seat in advance and change the route?\u201d<\/p>\n

The two friends, who had met in the Israeli Air Force in the 1990s, often discussed different business ideas like that. Then, in 2012, after that phone call, they co-founded Via<\/a>, an dynamic platform for on-demand shared rides with the vision to reinvent the public bus. Today, Daniel serves as the company\u2019s CEO and Oren as the CTO, and the company operates throughout the U.S. and worldwide, with more than 100 partners, including cities, public transit authorities, universities, corporate campuses and organizations of all types, that leverage its technology to transform public transit and other infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, January 21, 2020, as part of the Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg Speaker Series at Bloomberg\u2019s Global Headquarters in New York City, Bloomberg Television\u2019s Scarlet Fu discussed with Ramot Via\u2019s first routes, how it partners with municipalities, and entrepreneurism.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n