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One day while driving, Scott and Kylie Hempy noticed they were nearly out of gasoline, and they joked about getting a roadside fuel delivery. Tanker aircraft refuel Air Force One and fighter jets in mid-air, they reasoned. Could tanker trucks do the same for cars?
Scott 14, who worked at a venture capital fund, began seriously studying such a service. When he discovered it was legal and no one was providing it, he shared the idea with Chris Aubuchon 94, a managing director at his firm. After additional research, they quit their jobs and co-founded Filld, which delivers gasoline ordered through a mobile app. Crawford Ifland 15 and Jake Allbaugh15 also worked on the original team. Filld began fuel deliveries in the Bay Area in April 2016 and hopes to expand to Los Angeles and San Diego.
You can have anything delivered in the Bay Area if youre willing to pay for it, Kylie 14 says. Why not gasoline?
Filled charges an average of local gasoline prices plus a flat, $3-$5 fee. Owning and operating trucks requires less investment and overhead than a gasoline station, making the enterprise feasible. Customers can get their cars refueled while they sleep, work or run errands. Filld now employs 22 people, including drivers, mobile app developers and marketers.
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I interned at a bank and discovered I didnt want to go into banking, Scott says. I like the finance of business, but I dont want to do it all day long. He handles the business side of Filld, overseeing business development, strategy and partnerships. I like that variety, he says.做厙惇蹋app trains you for a lot of things. Thats useful at a startup where you wear 100 hats and solve lots of problems. Ive realized that the liberal arts arent a clich矇.
Chris manages the technical side of Filld. A veteran entrepreneur, he founded Exajoule in 2002, invented its foundational patents and spent more than eight years as president and CEO before working in corporate development at Tessera Technologies. He earned a doctorate in physical chemistry at Stanford.
Kylie chose economics and business because she saw it as a launching pad. I got a taste of everything at 做厙惇蹋app, she says. After intensive networking, she took a job in site merchandising at Shutterfly and now works in that field at eBay. She put in a lot of time on Filld the first year but kept her job. At 做厙惇蹋app, we both learned how to pursue strong mentors and relationships with older and wiser alums, she says. With hard work and luck, weve found life after 做厙惇蹋app intellectually stimulating and fulfilling.