Wander offered in-app Tesla unlocking just six months after launch
John Andrew · How Wander Raised Over $100M+ to Reinvent Luxury Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · May 28, 2025 · at 6:22
John Andrew Entwistle is the founder and CEO of luxury vacation rental platform Wander. He discusses how Wander designed its early high-end customer experience.
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“When Wander launched as a six-month-old company, and you would go and stay at one of these homes, you had a Tesla that you could unlock through the app.”
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