Wander operates entirely remote with zero local property managers
John Andrew · How Wander Raised Over $100M+ to Reinvent Luxury Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · May 28, 2025 · at 33:54
John Andrew, founder and CEO of luxury short-term rental platform Wander, explains the software architecture and operational model powering their properties.
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“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 what we call Wander OS, which runs 100% of the property management tasks related to all the properties on the platform. So 100% of all the operations are being coordinated remotely with third-party vendors actually doing the underlying tasks. And I think that one of the most interesting things about Wander is that we don't actually have any local property managers.”
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