HeyJaredSelf Storage Explained
Expert advice to set up and scale your self storage business. A podcast from Stora hosted by Gavin Shields.Each episode explores a different topic you'll need to become familiar with in order to build a great self storage business.
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- Sep 17, 2026
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From 1 store to over 100: Adrian Lee, Big Yellow (opens the original)
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Adrian Lee helped start Big Yellow in 1998 and grew it past 100 stores. He joins Gavin Shields to talk about scaling, capital, hiring, and revenue management, including why he thinks a full store is a pricing problem, and what he'd do differently if he started again today. He's blunt about where smaller operators leave money on the table, and about how much of the UK market is still untouched. At the point he retired, 70% of Big Yellow's move-ins had never used self storage before. Also: metro s
Introducing Scaling Self Storage (opens the original)
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Self Storage Explained is now Scaling Self Storage. Gavin Shields, co-founder and CEO of Stora, explains the change. The show started when most of the operators we worked with were opening their first site. That hasn't changed, but we now also work with operators running 10, 20 and more sites, and the show covers both. Whether you run one site or a hundred, there's always room to grow. First up: Adrian Lee, who helped build Big Yellow from one store in Richmond in 1999 to over 100. Out Thursday
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