Building Wealth with Speed, Humility, and Ugly Businesses

In this episode of The Industrial Real Estate Show, I had the honor of interviewing Nick Huber about his new book and his entrepreneurial philosophy. We discuss why speed matters more than over-preparation early in a career, the danger of chasing status over real opportunity, and how decision-making and sales are critical muscles to build for long-term success.

About Nick:

Nick Huber is an entrepreneur and real estate investor who resides in Athens, Georgia with his wife and three children. He started his first business, Storage Squad in 2011 and grew it to 25 major college towns before he sold the business in 2021 for $1.7M. While running the service business, Nick built his first self storage facility in Ithaca NY from the ground up for $2.4M. That facility is worth over $10M+ today.

After Storage Squad, Nick started a real estate private equity and self storage operations firm called Bolt Storage. With his business partner Dan Hagberg, Bolt Storage now owns 2M square feet of self storage across 68 locations in 11 states. There is no mark to market in real-estate but the portfolio is worth well over $100M dollars today.

More recently, Nick acquired a controlling stake with a group of investors in Somewhere.com for $52 million dollars in May of 2024. Somewhere has helped over 3500 businesses hire more than 6000 remote workers for 80% less than US equivalents. The business has 200 employees located worldwide across 9 countries including the US, Latin America, South Africa, the Philippines and more.

In total, Nick’s businesses do more than $30 million in annual revenue and employ over 325 people. Alongside his portfolio of businesses, Nick is a content creator and has more than 780,000 followers across channels. Nick’s content has received more than 2 billion views online across platforms in the last few years.

Nick's companies / websites:

www.sweatystartup.com www.nickhuber.com

www.sweatystartupbook.com www.somewhere.com

www.boltstorage.com www.recostseg.com www.adrhino.com

www.spidexx.com www.boldseo.com www.webrun.com

www.titanrisk.com www.recruitjet.com

www.hubermethod.com

Connect with Nick:

www.x.com/sweatystartup

www.instagram.com/sweatystartup

www.linkedin.com/in/sweatystartup

/ sweatystartup

www.tiktok.com/sweatystartup

www.threads.net/@sweatystartup.com https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

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Link to buy the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4bLazjW

Link to buy the book in the UK: https://bit.ly/422njPW

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