Joe Kraus
President @Lime
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WORK HISTORY
President @Lime
Transportation accounts for approximately 25% of greenhouse gas emissions. Lime\'s mission is to positively impact climate change by moving trips from cars to smaller electric vehicles and, in doing so, return cities everywhere to being about their people, not their cars. Lime is the largest global micromobility provider, operating a large fleet of e-scooters, e-bikes and e-mopeds in over 200 cities worldwide. To give a sense of scale, Lime operates more vehicles than the entire public transportation system of the United States, FedEx, UPS or DHL.As Lime\'s President, I oversee our entire Product organization, including all Hardware design and engineering (we design and build our own vehicles), Supply Chain and Logistics, and all Software product management, research, design and engineering. If you\'re interested in impacting climate change and helping to develop a business that is having positive impact on the world, Lime is growing quickly, and we\'re hiring in multiple roles across all product disciplines. We were fortunate to be named one of Time Magazine\'s Most Influential companies in 2021.
EDUCATION
Stanford University
B.A., Political Science
ABOUT JOE KRAUS
I’m an experienced entrepreneur, investor and operator who thrives on being ‘in the Arena’ (h/t Teddy Roosevelt) and leading teams. I am intrinsically motivated by ‘winning with friends’ and I love the bonds that form when a group of people struggles together to do the seemingly impossible. I co-founded one of the first Internet search engines, Excite.com in 1993, taking it public in 1996 and selling it in ($6.7Bn transaction). In 2004, I co-founded a second company, JotSpot, focused on collaboration, and sold it to Google in 2006. I helped to scale up Google Ventures (GV) in 2009 where I was a General Partner for 10 years investing in mostly Transportation (companies like Turo, KeepTruckin\' Flock Freight and Lime) and Marketplaces (StockX, Peerspace). Currently, I’ve returned to operating as President of Lime where I oversee Product, including all hardware design, engineering, supply chain and logistics and all software product management, research, design and engineering. Lime is working to return cities everywhere to being about their people, not their cars, and in doing so, we’re striving to help on the most important problem of our time, climate.
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