Founder of CarsDirect and Zag shares his lessons on disrupting the car industry twice in a decade In this segment of "Lessons for Entrepreneurs," Bambi Francisco interviews Scott Painter, who founded CarsDirect in 1998 and founded Zag in 2005.  BF:How has the online car industry changed in the last 10 years?SP: I am definitely on a mission. I do believe that buying a car is the most time consuming, frustrating task that we all share and everybody has a bad car buying story. I think the introduction of technology and transparency into the process is all about making car buying better. It turns out that it’s about making car selling more efficient as well. I think there are two sides of the equation. I think the introduction of CarsDirect and what we did in 1998 and 1999 ...   [ Read more ]