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Everyone told us we were the future of car buying. Turns out the future needed better margins than we had.

failurehype— Business Insider Interview, 2017
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We wanted to make buying a used car as easy as buying something on Amazon. No dealership. No haggling. Just click and it shows up at your door.

automotivedisruption— TechCrunch Interview, 2015
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The used car market is a $700 billion industry built entirely on mistrust. We thought transparency alone would be enough to win. We were wrong about the economics.

automotivefailure— Post-mortem Interview, 2017
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We were spending $2,400 to acquire each customer. You can't sell a used Honda Civic at those unit economics and survive.

failuregrowth— Startup Podcast, 2017
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We had the product. We had the demand. We just didn't have a business model that worked. That's a different kind of failure — the most frustrating kind.

business-modelentrepreneurship— Medium Post, 2017
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If I did it again, I'd start with one city, not fifteen. We scaled before we figured out the math. Classic mistake.

failurelessons— Founder Interview, 2018