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Interview 07 of 2112:41 PM · Moscone West

Aidar Sadyrov

Founder, RoadOne.ai

AI fleet payments that stop fuel fraud.

The full conversation

7:31 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

3:40 · Aidar's answers, condensed.

Clips

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Fuel theft eats 10% of fleet budgets

“How big is this problem? Because this is the first time that I've ever heard that there's actually theft in truck driving. How big is this problem? It is up to 10 % of the fuel budget. So our system, our AI engine, contr…”

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Cheap is fine. Free is not.

“But you always think about the money and the future. If I sell it for free and then the future, will it be valuable if I start selling? And then we always started to try to sell it, even if it's cheaper, but just sell it…”

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You will struggle. You will grow.

“I said, know that it's not easy. 100%. You will struggle. But you will learn. You will grow. And you will make lots of lessons. And your brain will grow. That's the main part. The money is second. It will come. But try t…”

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The goal: a decacorn, at least

“Are you going to build this into the next unicorn? Or are you going to be like, hey, I want to exit this so I can continue building so many, many more companies? I'm going to first. I'm the guy who's, if starting somethi…”

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12 countries. The US is next.

“Actually, we started with the private motorists at the beginning time. And then the corporates started asking, hey, this is interesting technology. We have some problems. Can you help us? And then we started, oh, thanks.…”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

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