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Curiosityness

055 Hotel Meets Hostel | Sleepbox co-founder Mikhail Krymov

Curiosityness

Travis DeRose

History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8566 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sleepbox is bringing the privacy of hotels matched with the affordability of hostels for a seriously awesome idea! 

 

Sleepbox is a smart, micro-hotel pod that consists of a bed, desk, and WiFi. They're already available in airports by the hour and soon there'll be entire Sleepbox hotels. 

 

Tune in to hear an awesome story about how the company got started, their vision, and the future of Sleepbox!

 

Check out https://sleepbox.com for more info!

 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview.

0:06.5

Welcome to Curiosityness, the podcast, episode 55.

0:13.1

I'm the host, Travis DeRose.

0:14.8

Thank you for being here.

0:16.6

On this episode, I have on the founder of Sleepbox.

0:21.9

Misha is how he told me to pronounce his name.

0:27.4

Sleepbox is awesome.

0:29.0

They're making like, they're like a cross between hotels and hostels.

0:33.1

They're like these little sleep box rooms that just have a bed and a desk and smart lighting and a smart,

0:39.4

you know, they're sweet. So it was really fun to talk to them. I really cannot wait to start

0:44.2

seeing these things. They're already in the Doles Airport. They're looking to open up a bunch of

0:49.5

hotels and franchise this thing and get these things everywhere because they're really sweet.

0:54.6

I definitely want to get involved with these things and try them out.

0:59.9

And I check out, I think before you listen to this, check out sleepbox.com

1:03.8

and just check out a photo of these things because they're really cool looking.

1:07.9

And then this might all make more sense.

1:10.2

But that's it. it's a fun story

1:12.7

here is misha from sleepbox what's the story of sleepbox how did it get started uh yeah it's um

1:21.7

it started uh i think 80 years ago or so when I was running my architectural company in Moscow,

1:30.0

I came up with this fun design concept to solve a problem that I personally had

1:39.2

by sleeping on the floor in the Paris Airport and that that experience sucks.

1:44.8

Yeah, it does.

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