#892 - Delaware College Students Place Ads on 450,000 Cars
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Two enterprising students start a business that connects advertisers with car owners. They now pay thousands of drivers up to $500/month, and are on track to earn $5 million in revenue.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey what's up my friends, so glad you're here, it's Chris Gill about it for Side |
| 0:11.9 | Us All School. |
| 0:12.9 | I had a really fun story for you today, I had to kind of shake my head and smile at |
| 0:16.2 | the same time as I was doing the research for it. |
| 0:19.2 | Today's featured case study believes that we're living in a time now where if you own |
| 0:23.5 | a car, you could own your own company. |
| 0:26.3 | That may be a bit of a stretch or perhaps a well-executed marketing promise depending |
| 0:30.4 | on your position, but what he's done is create a way for car owners to get paid for hosting |
| 0:35.7 | ads on their cars. |
| 0:37.9 | This story actually comes from a college student, and working together with another student, |
| 0:41.6 | they now have, wait for it, 450,000 drivers signed up and are in the millions of dollars |
| 0:47.3 | of annual revenue. |
| 0:48.9 | But of course, you know, this started as a side hustle in college with low startup costs |
| 0:52.9 | and no venture capital. |
| 0:55.1 | Pretty incredible in lots of ways, and one of the many fun facts about it is they now |
| 0:58.6 | pay thousands of drivers up to $500 a month. |
| 1:02.9 | So there are lots of people out there with cars, I don't know if you necessarily want to |
| 1:06.0 | turn your car into a mobile billboard, but I bet somebody does, and as I said, there's |
| 1:10.4 | certainly plenty of people who have signed up already. |
| 1:12.7 | It is definitely an interesting business model, and these guys are on the path to a lot |
| 1:15.8 | of growth. |
| 1:16.8 | So I enjoy working on this story, Delaware College students place ads on 450,000 cars. |
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