![]() ![]() ![]() Q: Why did Fluid Truck decide to stay in Denver?Ī: We’re growing like crazy. In the first quarter, we added 60 people. We’re expected to get 375-400 more by year end. I’m originally from Colorado, so I moved back from Washington, D.C., to get a start-up going because of the great talent here. There’s young, smart people migrating here, vacating places like California. So we’ve had great success recruiting and getting good talent here. As we were growing bigger, different cities started to reach out with growth opportunities outside of Colorado. Some of those incentives were pretty compelling to move our HQ. I was pumped, but ideally we’d stay in Colorado. We wanted to stay here, and it was hard to argue with the capital dollars we can use to grow jobs here. (Colorado’s Economic Development Commission approved up to $16,382,827 in performance-based Job Growth Incentive Tax Credits over the next eight years.) It’s so awesome we’re staying here. We love Denver and want to see other tech companies build off us. ![]() Q: How do you handle that growth? How big is your staff in your locations outside Denver?Ī: We hire from people on the ground there. We put a couple of people in market initially. But there’s a pretty minimal team on the ground in those markets. We’ve got local companies who do things like maintenance, oil changes, etc. We’ve automated a lot when it comes to maintenance. Q: Where did the idea for Fluid Trucks come from?Ī: The closest scenario I can give is this: 20 years ago software companies bought servers to ramp up operations. Now with things like AWS (Amazon Web Services - cloud based computing services) and Google Cloud do all that. Imagine how it was a couple of years ago trying to start a fleet of trucks. Now, you no longer have to say I’m going to the dealer to get trucks and financing. You can hop on an app, book a truck and subsidize a fleet. Many businesses have crazy peak seasons where they never have enough trucks, like the fourth quarter for moving companies. Then they have an abundance of fleet vehicles in the slow time. I was thinking "how can we connect assets off that" like you would rent party equipment. ![]()
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