It doesn’t take long for Tony Aquila, CEO of electric vehicle company Canoo, to compare himself to Elon Musk.
“Guys like us—we’re founders. We’re founders that built big companies, and we operate them,” he says as he sits across from me in the back of one of Canoo’s futuristic electric campervans, about three minutes into our conversation. “We have a nature about us of wanting to do things differently. Not just better, but different.”
