Outdoorsy

Tiny homes as backyard Airbnbs and rural getaways

Sam pitches the modular/tiny-home boom: buy a 500-1,500 sq ft prefab unit, drop it on a plot of land, and rent it out on Outdoorsy. He points to Getaway, which builds cute Instagrammable tiny homes outside major cities and charges ~$200/night.

“You can buy a 500 to 1,500 square foot modular home, and it's kind of a cool idea. And I've actually met people who are buying plots of land and putting it on Outdoorsy, and they're like making money off of it. And now I'm like, man, I should do that with one of these modular homes. And here's why. There's this new startup called Getaway.”

Steal thisBuy a cheap plot of land, drop a prefab modular home on it, and list it on Outdoorsy as an Instagrammable city escape.

Outdoorsy raised $75M to disrupt the $32B RV industry

Sam reads Outdoorsy's pitch: a peer-to-peer RV rental marketplace targeting the $32 billion recreational vehicle industry, having raised $75 million.

“peer-to-peer marketplace to disrupt the $32 billion recreational vehicle industry. Okay, so they've raised $75 million. They've raised a lot of money.”