Trevor Milton: The Elon Musk of Semi-Trucks | 220
6/29/20261 hr 5 min
Trevor Milton called himself a serial entrepreneur and his playbook was simple: pick a futuristic idea, promise it will change the world… then talk about it constantly online. His biggest pitch was an emissions-free semi-truck that would make diesel engines obsolete. Investors poured in billions of dollars. But Trevor spent far more time selling the dream than building the truck – and soon, a scorned business partner, a frazzled engineer, and a finance bro with a conscience will start pulling at the threads of his startup empire, exposing the used car salesman at its core.
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First 90 secondsSarah Hagi· Host0:00
Audible subscribers can listen to all our episodes of Scamfluencers ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. [upbeat music] Sachi, do you remember when the idea of global warming went mainstream, and then suddenly every single product was green? It be- just became green.
Sachi Cole· Host0:22
It's amazing that we lived through that. I feel like how my parents felt about, like, when smoking became bad.
Sarah Hagi· Host0:30
[laughs] Whoa, that is such a good comparison. It's... That's our thing. I feel like it's slowed down because it is kinda getting harder to pretend every individual choice is the cause of climate catastrophe. Like, I mean, deep down I think people who believe it know it's corporations, right?
Sachi Cole· Host0:47
Uh, yeah. I really believe in trying to do everything you can for the planet. I recycle, I don't litter, but if they try to give me one more fucking paper straw, I'm going to start a revolution.
Sarah Hagi· Host1:00
You and me both, sister. [laughs] Well, today, our scammer is one who took a lot of advantage of the greenwashing craze. Promising to totally disrupt the transportation industry, this scammer lied his way into millions by offering something too good to be true. [gentle music] It's a sunny day in late 2017, and Noah Krushnic is sitting behind the wheel of a massive semi-truck