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title: How Away Travel Got Their First Few Customers | Trends by The Hustle
description: Away Travel is now a $1.4 billion startup with $100m plus in revenue. But here's how the company landed their first customers.
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# [How Away Travel Got Their First Few Customers | Trends by The Hustle](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/ebook/articles/how-away-travel-got-their-first-few-customers)

 Written by [Aja Frost @ajavuu](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/ebook/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) | Jul 9, 2019 7:41:39 PM

This year [Away](https://www.awaytravel.com/), a suitcase startup, raised $100m in new funding at a staggering $1.4 billion valuation. The company has raised a total of $181m and is rumored to have over [$125m in revenue](https://www.coredna.com/blogs/direct-to-consumer-retail-strategies-away). The stats alone are quite amazing.

But what makes Away particularly special is that the company was founded in 2015 and is only 4 years old.

At one of our events, when Away was only two years old with $20m in revenue and 60 employees, I interviewed founder Jen Rubio and asked about their first few months of business and how they generated so many sales as quickly as they did.

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