Gavin Shields is the CEO at Stora, an online bookings and payments platform for self-storage. He also runs StoreStuff, a rapidly growing self-storage facility business based in Northern Ireland.

Gavin has a strong track record of establishing and growing B2C companies across a wide range of sectors including fintech, video games, and tech-led storage solutions.

He consults with other tech-focused growth companies in marketing, finance, fund-raising, and business model validation. Prior to that, he was an investor at $15bn US Private Equity and VC firm, Summit Partners, and a finance manager at Procter & Gamble.

On the podcast:

04:44 - Getting to know Gavin Shields

09:11 - How Gavin got into the Self Storage industry

16:36 - Why Gavin believes in Self Storage Automation

20:01 - Dean thanks the sponsors of today's episode, Janus International Europe

22:38 - About Stora

27:48 - What is Stora

37:40 - About Storage brand market place

44:10 = How Gavin does all this thing

45:15 - The difference between Stora and other software

47:25 - About Software integration

49:03 - How to contact Gavin

52:18 - Dean takes a moment to thank the final sponsor of today's episode, StorageBox Marketing

Links:

Gavin Sheilds on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gavinshields

\Stora Website: - https://stora.co/

Gavin Shields email: [email protected]

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