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PODS & Red Rover: Pete Warhurst

How I Built This · 9 May 2022 · 1h 20m

What this episode covers

Pete Warhurst, founder of PODS and Red Rover, recounts his journey from a volunteer firefighter to launching the portable storage industry with PODS, where he engineered a unique hydraulic lift system to solve delivery logistics. After selling PODS for approximately $450 million, he launched Red Rover, a 'fetchable storage' competitor that allows customers to drive the truck themselves to eliminate costly and error-prone delivery services. Warhurst details the capital raising, manufacturing scaling, and regulatory battles faced in both ventures, as well as his personal motivations for starting a second company in his late 60s.

Most relevant to

founders before launch, early-stage companies and companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
U-Haul, Mayflower, Econometrics Associates, Verizon, Bay News 9, Oppenheimer group, Home Depot
Products
PODS, Red Rover
Also
OSHA

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