Nolan Zandi

Nolan Zandi is an advisor at Borrow, and was previously with Sidebench and Zanobo Partners. Nolan was also the Cofounder and Chief Operating Officer at RideApart, which they sold to Motor1 in 2016.

RideApart is a media company dedicated to engaging the powersports enthusiast audience and facilitating their interaction with the larger powersports community and industry overall. Featured in Yahoo! and Business Insider, Rideapart is one of the largest motorcycle and powersports portals online.

I was Chief Operating Officer and lead engineer on RideApart's CMS and ad tech platform. With our esteemed team we:

-Grew from 0-750,000 monthly unique visitors

-Grew from 0-$300,000+ in yearly revenue

-Gained 100,000+ Facebook followers, 10,000+ Instagram followers

-Grew the team from 3 cofounders to 20+ contributers

-Developed content partnerships with Yahoo! and Business Insider

-Developed advertising,editorial and marketing partnerships with Geico, Suzuki, Piaggio, Honda, Progressive Insurance, Aether Apparel, BMW, Skully, Nexx, Icon and many more

-Developed an original scalable Ruby-on-Rails CMS and Ad Tech delivery platform we called "WriteApart"

-Sold to Motor1 in 2016