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Gandhi: Clutter and MakeSpace merger creates an insurmountable logistics moat

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

Rahul Gandhi, CEO of Clutter, discusses the competitive advantage created by merging MakeSpace and Clutter.

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“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 really hard to overcome.”

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