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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Entwistle predicts 95% of Wander operations will be AI-automated within 18 months
“But I see a path to what I would define as full deflection Meaning, like, 95% of these tasks being done by AI probably in the next, like, 12 to 18 months.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wander is approaching a $40M gross merchandise value run rate
“We're cresting a forty million dollar GMV run rate.”
Assertion Supported
Wander created the first-ever vacation rental REIT
“We, like, the first vacation rental REIT to ever exist, it was exceptionally well done.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
300,000 homes meet Wander's quality standard, representing $35B GMV
“So there's about 300,000 locations that fit the Wander standard, and those 300,000 locations represent about thirty five billion of GMV which is quite, quite a bit.”
Assertion Partly supported
Wander secured a $100M Credit Suisse facility at eight months old
“And so we ended up signing up a hundred million dollar credit facility with Credit Suisse as a literal eight month old company.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wander operates entirely remote with zero local property managers
“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…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wander's 2022 and 2023 customer cohorts exceed $10,000 LTV
“Over a three-year period, so our, like, twenty-twenty-two cohort, twenty-twenty-three cohort it has over a 10,000 dollar LTV which means that basically folks are booking once a year.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wander is adding 200 to 300 homes worth $1.5B this month
“The 300, you know, 203 hundred homes that we'll add this month is about 1.5 billion dollars of real estate.”
Assertion Supported
Wander has surpassed 1,000 active locations on its platform
“We just passed a thousand locations, which is super exciting.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wander has grown its platform locations 14x year-over-year
“We've grown locations on platform about 14 X year over year.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wander achieved an 85 Net Promoter Score in Q1
“Our net promoter score is 85 for Q-one, which is super high.”
Assertion Supported
Wander offered in-app Tesla unlocking just six months after launch
“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.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wander's Fund 1 REIT generated a 22%+ return for investors
“We closed out the fund one for the REIT. Investors got a really great return, 22 plus percent, which is really great in real estate.”
Assertion Supported
The top 5% of vacation rentals account for 30% of industry revenue
“So the top five percent of vacation rentals represent about 30% of the industry's revenue.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Automated agents handle roughly 60% of Wander property management tasks
“I'd say today we probably have about a 60% deflection rate where the items and the tickets and the coordination and communication is being handled by these agents.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Only 35% of Wander's bookings come from paid marketing channels
“About 35% of our bookings come from higher cost channels, so think like Google and Facebook. The rest are all lower cost. So SEO influencer marketing, word of mouth”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wander has approximately 400,000 registered users on its platform
“Wander has about 400,000 users on our platform.”
Assertion Supported
John Andrew Entwistle founded venture-backed Coder.com at age 17
“My first venture backed company, I started when I was about 17, 18. That was Coder.com.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wander's team size is currently just over 100 people
“So today we're about a hundred people, but a little bit more.”