Huber: Bolt Storage operates 61 unstaffed facilities with 50 global employees
Nick Huber · How Nick Huber Built His Wealth: From Sweaty Startup to Real Estate Investor · Dec 22, 2022 · at 5:49
Nick Huber, founder of Sweaty Startup and Bolt Storage, describes his remote operational model for acquiring and managing self-storage facilities.
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“So what we have now is 61 self storage facilities. None of them have an office. None of them have a full-time staffed manager on site. And we have 50 employees spread really all over the world. 20 of them in the Philippines, 10 of them in Colombia. And, you know, several all around the United States that kind of run the business of renting units and operating the self storage business.”
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