Gil Carmo is the Founder and CEO of iMotorbike, a Malaysia-founded website for buying and selling pre-owned motorcycles, offering a fast, secure, and hassle-free online experience with a diverse product variety.

For a complete 360° experience, iMotorbike also enables users access to services such as insurance, road tax, extended warranty, and financing.

They last raised a $2.6M Series A in 2023.

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👋🏼  How would you explain your job to someone outside tech?

We super enhance the experience of buying or selling pre-owned motorcycles in a fast, secure and safe way.

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🧐  What's something about you or your job that would surprise us?

At 12 I traded mobile phones, at 18 I traded cars, at 30-ish I made trading motorcycles a career.

As an amateur, I sing opera, race cars and do judo.

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🏆  What has been the biggest highlight of your career so far?

I truly believe the biggest highlight is not a single event, it's the compounding of all events and struggles that got me to the current level of knowledge and action capability that I carry today.

There have been hundreds of incredible great events that make me proud, and each made great sense at any of the points in time they took place, for that reason I don't have one specific to highlight.

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🔍  What's a startup trend or space you're watching this year?

AI is definitely taking over most meeting rooms’ word exchange. Everyone is trying to find their edge on it.

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💼  What advice would you give someone starting out in your industry?

The best part of being in this industry is that you constantly handle a product of high level of desire and fun for the consumer.

No business or industry is easy, motorcycles are definitely a very challenging space and industry to operate in, get the right people with you and move fast.

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🗣  What's one thing you can keep talking about for hours?

iMotorbike

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🍨  What's your go-to ice cream flavor?

Strawberry cheesecake by Häagen-Dazs.