Is there room for a competitor in the home-sharing industry?

Parker Stanberry, Oasis, Bootstrapping, Marketplace, Scaling

The entrepreneur you about to meet is Parker Stanberry. He is the founder of Oasis which is a competitor to Airbnb in the home-sharing industry.

Instead of looking for the cheapest place or the nicest place on one of these cheap sites for home sharing, he has a highly curated marketplace for short-term rentals. They actually will do excursion booking for you; they will fully stock your fridge; They will find your local restaurant. Companies are using it and high net worth individuals are using it.

I invited the founder here to find out how the company is growing.

Parker Stanberry

Oasis

Parker Stanberry is the founder of Oasis, an innovative hospitality company where Hotel meets Home.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses for an audience of real entrepreneurs and actually have a team now. It started out as just me recording interviews, and then we started hiring editors, producers. In fact, today’s guest was pre-interviewed by one of our producers, and from time to time what I want to do is get together with my team in person to make sure that we all get to know each other, to work together to plan for the future.

And we’re not the kind of people who can go and get a hotel. I feel like having everyone in their own hotel rooms feels a little too impersonal. And then we all get to meet in the lobby from time to time. And then we have a conference room. It just doesn’t feel like us. It feels too much like, I was going to say my dad, but my dad wasn’t like that. It feels like, I don’t know,...

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