Sam Chason and Matt Gronbeck- Storage Scholars

College kids, Sam Chason and Matt Gronbeck began their business, Storage Scholars from a Wake Forest University dorm room. The founder of the company, Sam Chason struck a deal with his parents back in 2016, before his freshman year of college that his parents would pay the tuition costs for a public university, while he would pay the remaining costs for his private school education. Sam immediately looked for ways to get out of his debt, and he saw the need for an optimized campus storage solution for the international student community.

This is when the company Storage Scholars bloomed as a business. Storage Scholars is a company that hires college students from different universities to pack up students who are moving out of their dorms efficiently and effectively. They pack up belongings with absolute accountability for any damage at all, and they even move your luggage to your next dorm so it arrives ahead of when you do, so all you have to do is unpack. Storage Scholars licenses their business to universities to supply college students with working opportunities while making the college move-in process stress free. Sam saw the problem of his debt, along with the problem of a clunky college move-in process and created an innovative way to make the college move-in process hands free and stress free.

During the first year of Storage Scholars’ business, they served 64 customers with raving feedback and zero customer complaints. They have operations in over 200 campuses, have paid over 5 million dollars in student wages, and have completed over 75,000 moves. Personally, I find Sam and Matt very inspiring because they saw a simple need that did not take an amazing new technology in order to fix, but rather hard work and customer dedication. They’re hustle to promote their business, by even winning money on Shark Tank is incredibly impressive and teaches me that hard work pays off.