Our story begins at Startup Weekend Pittsburgh on Friday, April 5, 2013.

Alex Hendershott – a multidisciplinary, interactive and visual designer – stepped on stage at East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh to pitch an idea for an online marketplace for peer-to-peer self storage. With only 60 seconds to pitch, he caught the attention of a room full of roughly 100 developers, designers, and business people. He called the idea “Sparespace.”

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