Wejo CEO Richard Barlow on why Connected Vehicle Data is the Future (SPAC: VOSO)

by | Nov 3, 2021

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1R4fPuQsCql51soVR7pJ2K?si=1HkYjuMjRI223lhqEt-E8A

Data veteran Richard Barlow joins the podcast to discuss why he founded Wejo and the prospects for the company amid what he expects to be a boom in connected vehicle data.

Connected data company Wejo was founded in 2014 by CEO Richard Barlow, a data veteran and motorsport enthusiast. 

Wejo collects millions of data points from an ever growing fleet of connected cars which enables numerous use cases including helping smart cities manage traffic and more. Wejo agreed to go public via Virtuoso Acquisition Corp (VOSO) in a deal giving them an enterprise value of $800M.

Listen in to learn more about Wejo, how Virtuoso (VOSO) is accelerating them, and why investors should be excited.

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Spent his formative years at Goldman Sachs and now embraces the start-up life in NYC. A long suffering Oakland (Las Vegas) Raiders fan and graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Semi-professional go-kart racer waiting for his shot.

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