Scott Painter
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| Born |
September 30, 1968 (age 48) Seattle, Washington |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | West Point, University of California at Berkeley |
| Known for | Online auto retail entrepreneurship |
Scott Painter (born September 30, 1968) is an American investor and entrepreneur in the technology and automotive industries.
In 2016, he founded Fair, Inc., a Los Angeles-based automotive financial technology company.
Previously, Painter founded and served as the CEO of TrueCar, Inc. NASDAQ: TRUE a negotiation-free car buying platform and analysis company. Prior to TrueCar, he was the founder and CEO of CarsDirect.com, an online automotive research portal and car-buying service that introduced upfront pricing to auto retail.
He has advised a number of automotive businesses including Tesla motors.
Painter was born in Seattle on September 30, 1968 and grew up in Placer County, California, near Sacramento. He started his first company, Scott's Auto Dealing, at the age of 14. After high school, he joined the United States Army and trained to become a Spanish interrogator. He attended West Point, where he studied military strategy and systems engineering. While at West Point he served as class president before transferring to UC Berkeley where he studied political economics.
Painter left UC Berkeley prior to graduation to sell his first auto-related startup company, AUTOAccess, an electronic database of used cars for sale. Prior to founding TrueCar, he initiated and was involved in other ventures. Painter was also an early advisor to Tesla.
In 2005, Painter founded TrueCar, Inc.NASDAQ: TRUE, which was originally incorporated under the name Zag.com Inc. and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.[17] TrueCar was the first car buying platform[3] to provide car-buyers with a transparent insight into what other buyers paid, upfront pricing information, and a network of TrueCar certified dealers.[18]
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