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Padden heads up Business Development & Public Policy for Getaround. Getaround is the leading peer-to-peer carsharing platform that enables you to rent, locate & unlock cars instantly from your phone. Padden manages Getaround's ongoing strategic business partnerships in addition to relationships with the White House, Congress, state legislatures, and mayors.
Get $50 free Getaround driving credit or earn $5,000 guaranteed sharing your car. Getaround is good for the economy, the environment, and our cities. Each Getaround removes 9-13 other cars from the road and offsets up to 100,000 pounds of carbon pollution. The average owner on Getaround earns $500+ a month with some earning $30,000+ a year. If you turn 1,000 cars in a city into Getaround vehicles you can eliminate 10,000 other cars, offset 100 million pounds of C02, and inject $10 million into the local economy every year.
Padden has a Bachelors in International Relations & Chinese from Tufts University and a Masters in Modern Chinese Studies from Oxford University, where he studied US-Chinese technology policy. He is a Montanan.
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