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Side Hustle School

#1784 - Failure Friday: “Weeks after launch, the website was totally dead…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship,, Side Hustle, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Rupert Hunt, the founder of SpareRoom.com. It’s now the world’s largest roommate finder service—but in the early days, the team struggled to commit to it.  

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0:00.0

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0:34.9

Hey there, thanks for tuning in today. You are listening to Side Usual School.

0:38.5

My name is Chris Gelliboyer-Host, and this is our weekly segment called Failure Friday.

0:44.0

It's built on the principle that we can learn as much from failure as we can from success.

0:48.0

Therefore, Failure Friday is a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps,

0:52.4

disasters, and of course, failure. It's become one of our most popular formats.

0:58.0

You get to hear directly from a side uselor who is struggled to get something off the ground.

1:01.8

And today's short story features Rupert Hunt from the UK.

1:06.1

And we told the successful story of his roommate, finder, business, back on episode 836.

1:12.1

Music graduate makes spare change filling spare rooms.

1:16.3

In fact, this business has been phenomenally successful. Every three minutes,

1:20.0

someone finds a roommate on spare room. That's his platform.

1:23.3

So obviously, it's really taken off. But in the beginning, there was no guarantee of success,

1:28.0

and Rupert had to make a big decision, both for himself and in consideration with two close friends.

1:34.1

So he's going to tell us how that unfolded, as well as another lesson he learned along the way.

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