Unlocked Cars in Lander
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Shaan tells a story about visiting his college friend's small town of Lander, Wyoming to illustrate how different rural markets are.
"My best friend in college, my buddy Trevor, was from a place called Lander, Wyoming. I'd never heard of Lander and he's like 'We got 5 traffic lights total.' There's one street that has stoplights and there's 5 of them and that's it.
We went there and it's the only time in my life I've ever been like 'Yeah let's just drunk drive, it's fine' - there's no cars here. We literally got drunk and drove and there's not a single car on the road because there's nobody in this town.
He would leave his car key in the car in the ignition when he'd go to a store and just come back out. He bought his car used and one day at a gas station, this giant Native American guy came up to him and said 'Brother, is this your car?' He's like 'Yeah it is' and the guy goes back to his car and says 'I used to have that car, here's an extra key that I've had for that car for a while.' It's a crazy place."
Shaan Puri
Host of MFM
Shaan Puri is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Milk Road. He previously worked at Twitch as a Senior Director of Product, Mobile Gaming, and Emerging Markets. He also attended Duke University.