Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Google Play Podcast RSS Feed   Community. Neighborly. These words are the genesis of why two Frisco locals created the nabo app. Meaning “neighbor” in Danish, nabo is a grocery app where neighbors can help each other by picking up items at their local store and dropping them off to one another. At the store and have a few extra minutes? Check and see if there’s anything a neighbor needs. At home and need just a few items? See if anyone on nabo can help you out while they’re at the store. Listen and enjoy as we explore a little more about how nabo services our community and our local nonprofits. SHOW NOTES: [00:23] What is nabo? [02:54] How is it different? [06:51] Who can use nabo? [09:56] Launch date and what’s next for nabo LINKS & RESOURCES: Nabo on Lifestyle Frisco | Website | Facebook: @nabodelivery  | Instagram: @nabodelivery Connect with Lifestyle Frisco on:  YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Transcript Machine-generated. Welcome to the Frisco Podcast. I’m your host today, Kelly Walker. And we are talking to local business owners, Jim and Charith, about nabo. We’re going to learn what that means today. So welcome to the studio, guys. How are you? Great. Thank you so much for having us here, Kelly. We really appreciate it. Well, I know a little about nabo, but I don’t know if our audience knows everything. So I want to fill them in. The basics, I guess, is that Frisco has its own food technology startup. So tell us what that means, what it’s all about. Aboslutely, Kelly. Thanks for having us here. We, we love being here at Lifestyle Frisco’s office. So well, the first thing is we are a delivery app and nabo means neighbor in Danish. So true to the word. We are all about neighbors. We are about building stronger communities, building stronger neighborhoods. That’s what we’re about. Now, if you take yourself back to the start of the pandemic, one of the things that we actually saw were people going out of their way to help each other, you know, I, I personally reached out to folks who were quite early in our neighborhood and said, Hey, do you guys want something? And it was just not me. Everybody was reaching out to people at, Hey, how can we help you? Think about the pandemic. Think about the snowstorm. And these are not one-off events. We know that neighbors want to help each other, but there’s just nothing out there. When we actually looked at the market up, there are a lot of apps delivery apps, but they’re not focused towards communities. They’re all focused towards, uh, being a big economy, right? You order through the app, somebody comes and delivers at your door. They’re not transparent. The other day, in fact, I caught you a funny incident. Uh, my wife and I were talking and my wife said, Hey, uh, can you order something? That’s $5 or more from Kroger? And I said, why? She said, I want to get the bill above $35. So we don’t pay a delivery fee. And I was like, yeah, it’s crazy. You know? So, So we got talking together and we said, um, Jared, and I, we said, we need to bridge this gap. We need to bridge the gap and get something in the market. That’s for neighbors, for communities. And that’s how the Genesis of nabo began by trying to build a delivery app that can bridge neighbors who are at stores, buying something for them, themselves, and neighbors who are actually wanting something. So we’re at home needing help. Absolutely. We wanted to bridge that gap and that’s the Genesis of it. Which is such the neighborly way. Exactly. Unfortunately tend to lose that over time with, with schedules and just distance. And I don’t know, there’s something about the loss of that community neighbor feel sometimes. So I love the Genesis of this and that you’re, you’re, you’re bringing that back. Like the whole, can I borrow a cup of sugar? It’s can you grab me one at the store? Right. You know, we, we grew up with that, Hey, knock the door and say, I’m out of sugar. I need to have my cup of tea. Can I have sugar? We want to get that back. Yes. I Love it. So you mentioned fees and delivery fees, but I want to know kind other things about what makes nabo different from other types of delivery, app delivery apps that can help people out. Yeah, Absolutely. Kelly hope. So. You know what happened originally? When James first reached out to me and said, Hey buddy, let’s build a delivery app. And I was like, there’s so many out there in the market already. I don’t want to really focus on building a delivery app. Another one. Yeah. Another one. What’s the point? Then he was like, no, no, no, no, you gotta hear me out. Let’s let’s get together on a call one day and I’ll explain my concept. Uh, Jim and I go way back. We’ve known each other for a few years. Our kids play together. So we got together. We started talking and then he finally explained it to me. And then I got it. And then we quickly nailed it down to our mission to make this app more neighborly focused. So our mission is to bring neighbors together, make neighborhoods, uh, more neighborly. And that was the premise. And we then said, okay, so now how do we bridge that gap? And how do we make this successful? So we first and foremost said, okay, we cannot be charging exuberant fees, like other apps. Because that takes away the simplicity of needing just two or three things. That’s right, exactly. So if you look at some other delivery apps, they have complex fee structure. So we said, okay, …