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How Wander Raised Over $100M+ to Reinvent Luxury Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 28, 2025 · 78 mentions

• ▶ 0:15 John Andrew Wander is a company that's entire purpose is to solve a problem. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 3:00 John Andrew So we've been, we've been super fortunate. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 3:41 Molly O'Shea So to get to basics, could you just explain what Wander is and the evolution of the company? 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 5:33 John Andrew Yeah, so Wanderer 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 6:40 John Andrew So turn on the lights and, you know, the TV and the Sonos through the Wander app.
• ▶ 12:10 John Andrew Um, so there's about 300,000 locations that fit the Wander standard, and those 300,000 locations represent about thirty five billion of GMV, um, which is quite, quite a bit.
• ▶ 13:10 John Andrew Um, versus at Wander, literally, like we have a button in, in the concierge chat, like a thumbs up or a thumbs down, and when you hit that thumbs down button, it doesn't go into the ether, like it actually pings me on Slack.
• ▶ 14:07 Molly O'Shea I've heard so many phenomenal stories about friend stays at wanders, how much they're excited by it. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 16:53 Molly O'Shea The Marketplace is the heart of Wander, and booking, finding something that you find delightful, and having a nice escape. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 19:52 John Andrew And I remember starting Wander and feeling like, okay, like this is gonna be cake. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 24:33 John Andrew Looking at things like home quality, amenities, location, all the types of analysis that you would, you would have to do as a user and filtering that down into the 300,000 locations that are obviously wanders, you know, sort of target… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 26:33 John Andrew You know, I think that, uh, there's a house, uh, Wander Bandon Beach in Oregon that I remember standing at and thinking that if I could replicate the feeling that I was having there to millions of potential customers, that it would be a…
• ▶ 27:07 John Andrew I'd say that you have all of the normal sort of travel markets that you would think of, but one of the really cool things about Wander is that our focus isn't just on the revenue potential of the home, but certain sort of hard to measure… 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 27:53 John Andrew Uh, Wander Orford Cliffs is this James Bond looking house that's made of glass on these two pedestals above a 180 foot cliff at the westernmost part of the United States, except for Alaska and Hawaii, obviously, and it is just the most…
• ▶ 31:07 Molly O'Shea What's the craziest story that's come out of, of wandering experiences? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 33:54 John Andrew You know, I think that probably the most interesting thing about Wander from a software perspective is that you have the booking engine and the booking platform, and that's the only thing that we surface to guess, but underneath you have… 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 41:49 John Andrew But, you know, I would say that, like, Wander was actually built for that idea. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 43:38 Molly O'Shea Given your experience and how much you've scaled the company, how big is the team? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 46:17 John Andrew I, I think that beautiful companies have a, have a soul, um, and the reason for that is that companies are just groups of people, and people obviously, like, have a soul, and so the soul that you want your company to have has to be the… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 49:59 John Andrew You know, I think that one thing that we, we do is we're a very budget focused company. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 51:47 John Andrew Um, you know, Wander has a pretty incredible, uh, LTV to CAC. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 53:40 John Andrew And we talked about this idea that Wander has about 400,000 users on our platform.
• ▶ 55:17 John Andrew Yeah, so Wander works as a, as a take rate on gross revenue. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 58:03 John Andrew and then it didn't happen, um, and so it's not like, you know, Wander as a company has, like, a hundred million dollars in debt or something. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:06:45 John Andrew Um, you know, from a, from a company perspective, I think that Wander has reached the point where we have a lot of the ingredients for success. 3 times in the scene