Ed Bolian is a 34-year old serial Entrepreneur. Bolian works to combine his passion for business and exotic cars. As a founding member of VinWiki Bolian created a car community that logs and track the Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) of sport an exotic cars. This service creates a page for a specific car that will follow it over the course of the Cars life. But, this wasn’t the fist venture for Ed. Bolian began his entrepreneurial pursuit in college with an exotic car rental business. As a Junior at Georgia Tech, Ed managed to negotiate with a bank to finance just shy of a quarter-million dollars of sports cars, in this case a Ferrari 360 Spider and Lamborghini. Bolian set out on this venture without enough capital to make the first payment due one month from signing. In interview Bolian reflects on this time as nerve-racking, but he believe that if he could finance the venture he would find a way to make it work- all while being a college student. Ed worked to grow the business to the point where he sold. After this, Bolian worked for Lamborghini USA before leaving to start his current pursuit- VinWiki. This social automotive social media platform and successful YouTube venture. This year the company makes $1700 a day in Ad revenue alone from Youtube. The success of this brand comes from branding itself- Ed has one several cross-country road-rallies and is the current record hold for the ‘Canonball Run’. Bolian drove a mercedes from downtown New York City to the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles in 28 Hours and 50 Minutes- non-stop. This achievement gave Bolian’s name popularity amongst the automotive community. Bolian continues to combine his passion for exotic cars, including his personal collection, to grow the Youtube Channel and business.
As a car guy myself I will definetly be looking him up. I love how he took his passion and made it a career by starting his own website and youtube channel. That must have been one crazy roadtrip from NY to LA in 29 hours.