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This Week in Startups

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of September 28th, 2020

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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E1116 featuring Cabana's Scott Kubly: https://rb.gy/iyrmuv
E1117 featuring Citizen's Andrew Frame: https://rb.gy/azvdoz
E1118 Emergency Pod - Humane's product: https://rb.gy/ru23xp
E1119 featuring Wonderschool's Chris Bennett: https://rb.gy/kwqlyh
Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

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0:00.0

And when I saw this next company, Cabana, I was enamored.

0:03.8

And my friend David Sachs had invested in the company

0:06.7

and introduced me to the founder.

0:09.0

And I just thought, wow, I have been watching the Van life hashtag on Instagram and other places and been enamored with

0:18.1

candidly people driving up and down the coast and across the country and going to the

0:22.2

amazing parks national parks we have here in America.

0:26.0

And I thought, wow, that's a great idea for a company. Of course, then cabana. Life, you can go check it it out came out with a fleet of vehicles that allow you for

0:37.8

About 200 bucks a night to rent

0:41.3

a then a conversion van that has a bed and a bathroom and cooking equipment and all that great stuff.

0:48.4

So you too can go live that great outdoor lifestyle, full disclosure.

0:52.6

We have invested in this company.

0:54.4

Not only have I, but our syndicate at the syndicate.com

0:57.4

has invested in this company.

0:58.9

And we're very pleased to have made that investment

1:01.4

because we think this idea has legs. Welcome to the program, Scott Coobley.

1:05.6

Thanks, Jason, thanks for having me. What lesson did you learn in the micro mobility space?

1:11.6

And do you think those micro mobility companies are going to ultimately be profitable in work?

1:18.4

Yeah, I mean I that's a long pause Scott. No, I mean I don't know I don't like I don't know. I was what I liked about this business. How about I focus on what I like about this business? Yes. Well, it's also but also the lessons from Lyme. mean yeah I know and I

1:33.0

they have challenging unit economics they do and so what I really like about this

1:37.5

business is there's a lot of similar muscle memory and technology and things like that, user flow and whatnot.

1:46.6

What I look, it's very capital intensive as you mentioned, but from an operational standpoint,

1:52.1

like there's a lot of details that are much more intense here,

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