Rahul Gandhi

CEO, Crossterra · 1 appearance on the record.

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Rahul Gandhi is the co-founder and former CEO of tech-enabled storage startup MakeSpace, which merged with Clutter in 2022, where he subsequently served as CEO and President. Prior to launching MakeSpace, he worked in venture capital at Primary Venture Partners and in corporate development at AOL.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Gandhi: Only 10% of Americans currently use self-storage

“Only 10% of people in the U.S. Use storage today.”

Rahul Gandhi Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 8:24 How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale

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What they said9 Episodes1

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Gandhi: Clutter and MakeSpace merger creates an insurmountable logistics moat

“The muscle that we could bring between the logistics knowledge that we have, plus a partnership that Nobody else could have at this point, which is scaling, you know, incredibly well you know, you just create such a competitive mode that it's going to be reall…”

Rahul Gandhi Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 22:42 How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale

Disclosure

Gandhi: Clutter avoided growth-at-all-costs to prove unit economics first

“We're, we've actually not been focused on that for a long time, because the business is just so hard to scale as it is, that it's really important for us to prove out the unit economics of being able to do this, because so much of the market doesn't think we c…”

Rahul Gandhi Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 26:06 How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale

Insight

Gandhi: Tech-enabled storage operates like SaaS with long-tail customer retention

“Our business is interesting cause we're, you know, truly a consumer subscription business. Like there's a lot of SAS like elements to how we operate the business. And you know, you are burning a lot of Capital up front as you're growing, because you have that …”

Rahul Gandhi Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 27:16 How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Gandhi: Clutter could reach bigger scale than traditional storage incumbents

“I think this business could be very, very like not only that, but maybe bigger scale because it's going after portions in the market that the storage guys aren't even operating against.”

Rahul Gandhi Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 30:13 How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale

Assertion Supported

Gandhi: Only 10% of Americans currently use self-storage

“Only 10% of people in the U.S. Use storage today.”

Rahul Gandhi Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 8:24 How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Gandhi: Storage customers interact with items only 3-4 times

“And over the lifetime, customers actually interact maybe three or four times. And it's sometimes to take stuff out or sometimes to put stuff back in.”

Rahul Gandhi Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 12:37 How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale

Disclosure

Gandhi: I drove MakeSpace delivery trucks for 18 months before Series A

“Yeah, so I drove the truck for a year and a half, and I remember our first board meeting when we sat down, and you know, we had just raised our Series A, and the question was, are you going to keep driving the truck?”

Rahul Gandhi Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 14:17 How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale

Assertion Supported

Gandhi: Market leader Public Storage only owns 8% of the storage industry

“Public Storage owns roughly eight percent of the industry.”

Rahul Gandhi Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 30:01 How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale

Assertion Supported

Gandhi: Public Storage attempted on-demand storage 20 years ago

“And the industry and public storage actually tried to start this business about 20 years ago.”

Rahul Gandhi Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 10:50 How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale	Mar 8, 2023	22m

Rahul Gandhi

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