Jannik Lawaetz is the founder and CEO of LuggageHero, a growing network of affordable luggage-storage sites. As you might imagine, both sides of his win-win travel startup have been vastly reduced during the pandemic, as travel has all but stopped, and the local shops, cafes and hotels stores that normally store the luggage were almost all shut. 

Pre-pandemic, Luggage Hero launched in Copenhagen and expanded to London and New York City rapidly, and is now in 38 cities with 1500+ storage locations. It is the only international storage company to offer storage by the hour from a self-service travel app.

Since LuggageHero launched, its customers have racked up over 2 million hours of bag storage and the company, which has raised more than $2.25 million in funding to help expand its operations, was named one of PhocusWire’s Hot 25 Startups for 2019.

A graduate of Copenhagen Business School and a nominated entrepreneur of the year 2018 and 2019 by Ernst&Young, Jannik previously helped launch several Danish tech startups, including one that he launched and sold by the age of 14. 

In this episode, we talk about the future of travel startups, the future of travel, and what travelers and shop owners in his 250,000 strong community are thinking about the near and medium-term of travel.

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