Meet Steve Meyer | Urban Mobility Innovator

We had the good fortune of connecting with Steve Meyer and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Steve, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking
I became passionate about rock climbing and mountaineering at an early age having grown up in Boulder, Colorado. Managing risk is a huge component of that sport. A frequent meme regarding entrepreneurs is that they are simply “risk takers” Successful entrepreneurs know how to manage risks. If you don’t manage risks, and you succeed, it is simply luck. While I do think of myself as lucky, I’m also analytical. I seldom go “all in” on a bet. I never buy lottery tickets.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
What has been most rewarding of my business is the creative aspect. It amazes me how something originating as simply an idea becomes manifested. It is a magical process. It requires work and persistence, but always keeping your focus on a vision. Somehow it all comes together.

Covid shutdowns presented unique challenges to keeping a business going. While stressful, the creative process is also involved in finding new ways to do things. Now it’s the supply chain issues. Again, one needs to be creative.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I would take them on a river, down a canyon, with lots of petroglyphs, We could imagine ourselves going back in time and communing with the ancient people who once lived there. We would have a guitar or two, as well as a few other friends along on the trip and our laughter and songs we would bounce off the canyon walls. Our meals would be cooked over an open fire. Then we would look at the sky and all the stars.

The greatest spot in Downtown Denver I would take them is the Crawford Hotel / Union Station lobby. I think that is an incredible creation of public space. My best friend is into architecture, design, and urban space. That is the best creation of a public place I can think of in Denver.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
I went to India as a young man and was fascinated by the people who managed a living through simple enterprises on the street. So, I am standing on the shoulders of all the tinkerers and small shop owners who struggled to make their pedicabs and cargo trikes with far fewer resources than I have. Especially impressive were all pedicabs I saw in Cuba. They were literally making them with hand tools in a work space no bigger than my bedroom. These entrepreneurs inspired me.

A specific person who has inspired me is Dana Crawford. She is an entrepreneur, developer in the Denver Area involved in historic preservation and place-making in all of her development projects. The fact that she has kept on going, never “retiring” is a source of inspiration.

Website: www.pedicab.com

Instagram: @mainstreetpedicabs

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urbanmobility/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mainstrmobility

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MainStreetPedicabs

Youtube: Main Street Mobility

Other: pedaltruck.com

Image Credits
Barry Silber – AdventureD?C Tricycle tours. Tucker Mitchell- Reclaimed Organics Peter Meitzler – CitiBike “Bike Train” Casey Bobay – Mile High Pedicabs Dan Warren – Springs Water Trikes Viki Mann – cruise ship passenger Steve Meyer – Main Street Mobility, Inc.