The Off-grid Business Has Never Been Better
When demand surged for pandemic-friendly RVs and camper vans, Austin-based rental company Outdoorsy was ready to capitalize on the trend.
April 6, 2021
Jeff Cavins and Jennifer Young, who founded Outdoorsy in 2015 after their own eight-month road trip.
Courtesy of Outdoorsy
Jeff Cavins will never forget a prospective investor’s words from six years ago: “It’ll be nothing but crickets chirping on your website.” Cavins and his partner in business and life, Jennifer Young, were rejected by no fewer than sixty investors when they first started pitching their idea of a peer-to-peer camper-van rental marketplace called Outdoorsy in 2015. Some shortsighted tech bros in Silicon Valley and New York even escorted the pair out of meeting rooms only fifteen minutes into the duo’s hour-long presentation. The doubt in investors’ voices was thick:
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Our transportation desk is taking shape. Two new reporters, Aria Alamalhodaei and Rebecca Bellan started Monday and have already provided some new and interesting coverage. Tamara Warren, a former editor at The Verge who has been writing about automotive and tech for two decades, reviewed the Aston Martin DBX. This week, Abigail Bassett, a World Car Juror and former CNN producer who writes about cars, tech, business pretty much everything break down the new VW ID. 4.