This start-up is the Airbnb of warehouses and has Amazon in its sights

Flexe founders were at the party and decided their pal was onto something

A Seattle start-up has come out of nowhere to offer online merchants something even Amazon doesn’t: overnight ground delivery to nearly anyone in the country.
 
In less than five years, Flexe has created a marketplace of spare storage space in 550 warehouses, quickly establishing better geographic coverage than the vast delivery network that Amazon.com spent decades and billions building. Flexe did it without spending a nickel on facilities and already has 25 million square feet of storage, about 25 per cent of Amazon’s capacity, and expects to add 10 million square feet this year. Merchants book storage space via