In the 13th episode of the Bao Podcast, we welcome Xavier Leclair. Xavier is founder and CEO of Slow Cabins. This is a Belgian company that allows guests to rent cabins placed in secret locations across the countryside, and has plans to soon expand the concept throughout Belgium and Europe. These Slow Cabins are temporary eco houses that are completely self-sufficient when it comes to water and electricity provisions. In a Slow Cabin there is no internet as well, which means that you can slow down and break free from the stress of everyday life.

For more information, please visit https://www.slowcabins.be/en/.

 

Show notes: 

BASF 

Verbund at BASF 

The Blog of Tim Ferriss 

Lean startup 

Steve Jobs 2005 Speech 

Dalai Lama Art of Happiness 

Slow Cabins 

 

Time stamps: 

0:00 Life before Slow Cabins

6:35 Start of Slow Cabins

30:00 How renting a Slow Cabin works

31:40 Covid impact

36:00 How renting a Slow Cabin works 2

38:00 Ambitions

42:20 Lessons learned

47:45 Market competition

49:20 Outro