Jonathan Gillen

$2.

It was, it was me running around with a spreadsheet, uh, knocking on people's doors.

You know, I once sat outside.

So, so here's how I felt.

It was kind of funny.

I went knocking on people's doors, which is something I did with my last business, property tax, asking if they had any extra space and, um, getting their info on a, just a spreadsheet.

And then, um, I found there was a storage facility that was shutting down in San Francisco, um, and, uh, is on 7th and Townsend Townsend.

And I actually.

got a camping chair and sat outside that storage facility every day for two weeks while people who were coming to move their stuff out, they came with a truck and I was right next to where they would open their window and punch in their dial code to open the gate to the storage facility.

And I was there ready with a flyer telling them that I'll move them out of the facility for free if they move into a roost unit that I could also save them money on.

There's something like, there's something like, um,

a thousand like five hundred to a thousand people going i must have got like 10 uh it's not that much but it's hustle baby certainly enough to uh get some money going and get something started why not just buy the the whole storage unit uh that's uh sold for hundreds of million dollars i'm sure to be put to use as a uh

as a, uh, office building or, or, you know, yeah, it's getting, getting torn, uh, torn down.

And that's, what's happening in a lot of cities, actually, it's causing a storage crisis.

And, uh, that's presenting a really big opportunity for roost because there is a,

Severe lack of alternatives.

And that's what Roost does.

We provide storage alternatives.

We've had like 500, 600 buyers total.

And sellers, we've got probably about 2000 spaces now.