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.
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.
My dad built DriveTime. I grew up in the used car business. I saw everything that was broken. Carvana was my answer to all of it.
We built a car vending machine. An actual, multi-story, glass tower that dispenses cars with a coin. People thought it was a gimmick. It was marketing genius.
The dealership model is designed to confuse you. Hidden fees, four-hour negotiations, a guy in a bad suit telling you he needs to "talk to his manager." We eliminated all of it.
I race under a pseudonym because I want to experience cars the way customers do — with emotion.
Our chips are in 170 million vehicles. Every time someone's car brakes to avoid a collision, there's a good chance our technology made that happen.
Chrysler was supposed to be dead. We chose to believe it could live. And it did.