Clutter CEO Rahul Gandhi discusses market share benchmarks in the self-storage industry with host Joe Lonsdale.
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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…”
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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…”
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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 …”
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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.”
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Gandhi: Only 10% of Americans currently use self-storage
“Only 10% of people in the U.S. Use storage today.”
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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.”