April 5, 2021 When Nick Huber ’12 and Dan Hagberg ’12 started a storage business out of their Collegetown basement, they didn’t realize it would change their lives. “At the end of our junior year, during finals week on a whim, Dan and I started driving around, picking up and storing people’s stuff,” Huber said. They used their first profit to pay their rent. Provided Nick Huber ’12, left, and Dan Hagberg ’12 leveraged Cornell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, including courses at the ILR School and SC Johnson College of Business, to launch their business. By the time of their exit from Storage Squad in January 2021 – sold to the tune of seven figures to a company in the storage container space – the startup was operating on 30 college campuses in 15 cities across nine states.