{"id":18069,"date":"2015-12-07T15:57:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T20:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/?p=18069"},"modified":"2020-03-30T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:27:17","slug":"hate-schlepping-to-your-storage-unit-makespace-delivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/professional-development\/hate-schlepping-to-your-storage-unit-makespace-delivers","title":{"rendered":"Hate schlepping to your storage unit? MakeSpace delivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three years ago, entrepreneur Sam Rosen had to deal with a lot of stuff. Literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast, his ex-girlfriend had to move out of Hoboken, N.J. The Federal Emergency Management Agency had condemned her home, and everything she owned was being packed into boxes. Rosen remembers the whole ordeal being a logistical nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI moved out all of the stuff she had into a traditional public storage building,\u201d Rosen says. \u201cAnd when I asked her where her snow boots were, she had no idea. We couldn\u2019t go back to storage and look because it required so much effort. In traditional storage, you just put things in a box like a big closet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s when Rosen realized that most public storage isn\u2019t focused on the customer. On top of that, it\u2019s costly and time-consuming to pick up and drop off items, especially without a car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Rosen and his co-founder Rahul Gandhi launched MakeSpace<\/a>, a startup that provides on-demand pickup and drop off to their storage units. They currently have warehouses in several cities across the U.S., including Jersey City, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hate<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When Gandhi jumped on board three years ago, he was the father of one-year-old twins. Going from a cushy job at a venture capital firm to driving a van was tough, but what convinced him was his longstanding friendship with Rosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me,\u201d Gandhi says, \u201cit was always about the dynamics of the team, whether they care about disrupting the market and are they going to be the ones to break down walls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company tracks all your packed-away belongings, making it easier to find not just your snow boots, but anything else. You can snap a photo of each individual item, or the company can take an aerial-view photo of all your stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you need something from storage, the app and website let you highlight the item and schedule a drop-off time. A rating system similar to Uber lets you rank the drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith traditional self-storage, it\u2019s like driving your car to a parking lot,\u201d says Gandhi. \u201cWith MakeSpace, it\u2019s like someone driving your car to a valet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the company has added more customers, the original team of two has expanded to 75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere were many challenges,\u201d Gandhi says. \u201cBut the moment we knew there was something big was when more than 20 employees were pounding the table saying, \u2018This is real.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo credit: Makespace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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