Getaround Inc.
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Oct 20, 2026
Mike BoysenHOST
But plenty of idle capacity ideas have stumbled, and these are worth learning from.
Mike BoysenHOST
Getaround let people rent out their parked cars.
Mike BoysenHOST
It was a smart idea, and it had a lot of fans.
Mike BoysenHOST
But it shut down its American business in early 2025, sold its European business this spring, and voted to close the company for good this summer.
Mike BoysenHOST
and it breaks a pattern I talked about in my last video.
Mike BoysenHOST
Airbnb and Getaround tried to make money from idle stuff by pulling it together from lots of owners.
Mike BoysenHOST
Starlink has just one owner.
Mike BoysenHOST
SpaceX builds the whole network, owns every satellite, and sells its own spare bandwidth.
Brett MartinGUEST
So you're seeing a lot more success for companies like Uber or Exec or even GetAmaid, which is like helping you find a maid, right? It's a lot easier to build liquidity in these verticals and for specialized services than it is to go horizontal like, uh, Zaraly is trying to.
Brett MartinGUEST
Um, I have companies like Airbnb and GetAround on here, um, because for a different reason.
Brett MartinGUEST
Um, you guys are familiar with the sort of communal consumption concept.
Brett MartinGUEST
Uh, one really interesting facet of proximity-based services is that all these communal consumption companies are leveraging, you know, the concept of reputation and identity trail that is very prevalent on the internet.
Dan MartellHOST
Now, I've been watching and studying some of the smartest people in the world, even though I feel blessed and lucky to have, you know, started and scaled and exited.
Dan MartellHOST
My last two companies were venture backed, my third one was a consulting company, and literally invested, uh, had the privilege to invest in 30-plus other companies, like Intercom, and Udemy, and Getaround, and Unbounce, and watched them grow their businesses.
Dan MartellHOST
Um, there's really, you know, studying the Elon Musk, and the Reid Hoffmans from LinkedIn, and the Peter Thiels, uh, you know, of PayPal and Facebook fame, I just feel like there's literally a pattern.
Dan MartellHOST
And if you understand these five keys, then it'll at least allow you to make better decisions in your business.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
There's a commenter on Turo vs. Hertz who put it about as plainly as it can be put.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
He said he doesn't see any logical reason why he should pay additional taxes and fees when renting from Hertz but not from Getaround or Turo.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And then he asked the real question, which is whether Turo's position is that it's just a platform and the hosts are the ones responsible for the taxes.
CornHOST
Which is the entire argument in one sentence.