New Story

“It is efficient and it's scalable and it makes a lot more sense than to try to build your own in-house capacity to do these things. Collaborate, right? Like use partnerships, use channels, just like SAS companies do, right? Use channels to get the end product …”

“We have funded now a 131 homes. During YC, we did this campaign we said, let's pick a crazy goal during YC, and so we said, we're going to try to fund a hundred homes in a hundred days, and, you know, we launched this campaign, and we got fortunate, and we did…”

“They're built to Miami-Dade County and Broward County hurricane standards, so they're built to last and withstand, you know, natural disasters that might continue to come to Haiti. They are 400 square foot homes and Yeah, built with concrete reinforced with st…”

“Over 60% of our donors actually opt in to help fund our operations.”

“One home costs 6000 dollars right now.”

“And so you think like the vision going forward in five years, there will be, you know, dozens of new story communities around the world. And that you'll have, of course, the homes cause there's the foundation and you'll have a school, clean water and sanitatio…”

“A hundred percent of your donation goes to funding their home.”

“So we, what we do is we crowdfund houses for families living in danger around the world.”

“It was to simply take them out of that tent slum, bring them into a new community that immediately solves those dangers, and then actually becomes a platform or house becomes the foundation for really the three pillars that people get excited about, which is a…”

“Once the home is funded you then takes about two and a half months to build the home, which is all built by local construction workers.”

“Now on average, that campaign brings in 13 new people that are now new story donors and exposed to new story that we could have never reached. Right? And then the viral piece is 20% of them will start their own campaign.”