#1618 - Accountant Shifts Gears To Renting Out Cars
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2021
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When an Atlanta accountant discovers the sharing economy, he wheels and deals his way to owning an entire fleet of cars.
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| 0:27.0 | One of my favorite stories from the side hustle book was about a guy in California who |
| 0:32.0 | acquires more than a dozen cars. He calls them a fleet of cars. |
| 0:36.0 | He goes out and leases a dozen cars and then rinses them out on Turo. |
| 0:40.0 | Turo is the crowdsourced rental car site that allows owners to get paid for offering their cars to strangers. |
| 0:45.0 | Check it out if you'd like to mix them out. |
| 0:48.0 | You have a car you don't use every day. But Turo isn't the only game in town. |
| 0:53.0 | One thing I don't think we have ever talked about, another platform is Get Around. |
| 0:58.0 | So this company Get Around is active in more than 300 cities. |
| 1:03.0 | Offers a similar business model in terms of you can take a personal vehicle and then allow strangers to rent it out. |
| 1:08.0 | You get paid. They take a cut, of course. |
| 1:11.0 | You can take a car and you can take a car and you can take a car and you can take a car and you can take a car. |
| 1:17.0 | They take a cut, of course. So that's what today's story focuses on. |
| 1:21.0 | When a young accountant in Atlanta discovers the sharing economy, he wheels and deals his way to owning. |
| 1:27.0 | Yes, that's right. An entire fleet of cars. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm so excited. The story is called a accountant. |
| 1:33.0 | Shift gears are running out cars. The story's coming up in just 30 seconds. |
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