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CarsDirect was founded in 1998 by Scott Painter, launched from the business incubator Idealab. It was the first company to sell vehicles online directly to consumers, rather than referring consumers to brick-and-mortar dealers.
WalletPop's Lan Nguyen chats with Scott Painter, founder of CarsDirect.com, Zag.com and TrueCar.com. Painter, who fell in love with cars at 14, has founded 30 companies, half in the automotive ...
Painter was born in Seattle on September 30, 1968, and grew up in Placer County, California, near Sacramento. [6] He started his first company, Scott's Auto Dealing, at the age of 14. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] After high school, he joined the United States Army and trained to become a Spanish interrogator. [ 8 ]
Autotrader.com was founded in 1997. [2] It was derived from Auto Trader magazine, first published by Stu Arnold in 1973. [5] Freelance photographers would travel to the address of a customer to photograph their vehicle.
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Vroom, Inc. is a parent company of United Auto Credit Corporation (UACC) and CarStory. Previously, it was a used car retailer and e-commerce company that let consumers buy, sell, and finance cars online. [3]
Carsquare USA was founded by Khurrum Shakir after leaving AOL in 2010 and closed in 2017. [6] The company launched in 2012 as iGrabberAutos. [7] It was one of the exhibitors at the 2013 Everywhereelse.co Startup Conference. [8]