Bonus content: Formula E's founder Alejandro Agag

Recorded during the 2022 Formula E season How to be a CEO met with the founder, Alejandro Agag.


From an idea on the back of a napkin in 2011 to one of the fastest growing sports in the world, the Formula E story is one of risk-taking, set backs and extraordinary success. We speak to its founder Alejandro about:

 

  • How Formula E's innovating commercial electric vehicles
  • Gigamine and battery recycling 
  • How the end of the combustion engine will promote electric racing


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