# Matt Gronberg

> Helping students with their storage

## Pages
- [Contact](https://mattgronberg.com/contact/): Get in touch with Matt Gronberg by email or phone, or connect on X, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
- [About Matt Gronberg](https://mattgronberg.com/about/): Matt Gronberg is Co-Founder & COO of Storage Scholars. From pre-med to Shark Tank deal with Mark Cuban. 200+ college campuses served. Based in Austin, TX.
- [Now: What I’m Working On](https://mattgronberg.com/now/): Matt is Co-Founder & COO of Storage Scholars, working with 200+ campuses on student move-out logistics. Updated February 2026 from Winston-Salem, NC.

## Articles
- [Storage Scholars on Shark Tank](https://mattgronberg.com/shark-tank/) — 2024-11-22: Matt Gronberg and Sam Chason pitched Storage Scholars on Shark Tank in October 2023, six years after starting the company out of a Wake Forest dorm room.
- [Storage Scholars on Fox Business Network](https://mattgronberg.com/fox-business/) — 2025-03-25: Matt Gronberg and Sam Chason joined Fox Business Network to talk about Storage Scholars' growth story and share advice for college entrepreneurs.
- [How an Ownership Mindset Transformed My Career](https://mattgronberg.com/ownership-mindset/) — 2025-03-22: Matt Gronberg traces his path to co-founding Storage Scholars back to one lesson from his father: act like an owner before you have equity.
- [From Pre-Med to Co-Founder](https://mattgronberg.com/pre-med-to-co-founder/) — 2025-03-27: Matt Gronberg mapped out a 13-year road to becoming an orthopedic surgeon before a chance opportunity at Storage Scholars changed his plans entirely.
- [Building a Business Partnership Through Trust and Crisis](https://mattgronberg.com/partnership-through-trust/) — 2025-04-01: Matt Gronberg on how dedication, earned leadership, and weathering a crisis with his co-founder built the foundation of Storage Scholars.
- [Featured on Shark Tank AGAIN!](https://mattgronberg.com/shark-tank-again/) — 2025-04-06: Matt Gronberg and Storage Scholars were featured on Shark Tank again. The company grew from a dorm room hustle to a $7M+ per year business.
- [Storage Scholars: Moving 10,000 Students with Quality and Precision](https://mattgronberg.com/moving-students-with-quality-and-precision/) — 2025-05-01: Matt Gronberg on how Storage Scholars moves 10,000 students each spring across two coasts, with crews deployed strategically from May through late June.
- [My Approach to Balancing Fitness, Health, and Entrepreneurship](https://mattgronberg.com/fitness-health-and-entrepreneurship/) — 2025-05-07: Entrepreneurship is a marathon with occasional sprints, Matt Gronberg says. Fitness gives him the stamina for both at Storage Scholars.
- [Built from Scratch Podcast: From Pre-Med to $7 Million](https://mattgronberg.com/built-from-scratch/) — 2025-04-21: Matt Gronberg appeared on Built from Scratch to share how Storage Scholars grew from an $18,000 side hustle in 2017 to $7 million in revenue.
- [Spring Move-Out: Mission Accomplished](https://mattgronberg.com/spring-move-out/) — 2025-07-01: Storage Scholars completed spring move-out at 200+ campuses. Their Ship-to-School program ships belongings home and has them ready when fall arrives.
- [Storage Scholars x StarRez Partnership](https://mattgronberg.com/storage-scholars-x-starrez-partnership/) — 2026-01-29: Storage Scholars has partnered with StarRez, integrating move-and-storage options directly into the housing agreement process used by 200+ campuses.
- [Headshots of Matt Gronberg](https://mattgronberg.com/headshots/) — 2025-01-01: These images may be used as headshots of Matt Gronberg for speaking and media appearances. Click each image for high-quality, print-ready file.

## Categories
- [Best Posts](https://mattgronberg.com/category/best-posts/): My most-read posts, collected in one place. These are the ones that got shared, sparked conversations, or just kept getting traffic long after I published them. In "Storage Scholars x StarRez Partnership," I announced that Storage Scholars launched a partnership with StarRez, a move that opened up new doors for how we work with universities. That one still gets a lot of attention because it shows how partnerships can change the trajectory of a small company.
- [General](https://mattgronberg.com/category/general/): A mix of everything I think about and work on. No single theme here, just whatever I felt compelled to write about at the time. In "My Approach to Balancing Fitness, Health, and Entrepreneurship," I wrote about treating entrepreneurship like a marathon with occasional sprints. That post keeps coming back to me because the balance never stops shifting, and I am always rethinking how I manage it.
- [Podcasts](https://mattgronberg.com/category/podcasts/): My podcast appearances and conversations, all in one place. I tend to be pretty open on mic, so these are some of the most unfiltered versions of my story. In "Unbound Living Podcast," I talked about the lessons I picked up through the grind of building a business, the relationships that mattered, and what staying resilient actually looks like when things fall apart. That conversation keeps sticking with me because it captured how I really think about this work.
- [Storage Scholars](https://mattgronberg.com/category/storage-scholars/): Everything I write about Storage Scholars, the company I co-founded. If you want to understand what we do and why I care about it, start here. In "Storage Scholars x StarRez Partnership," I shared the news about our partnership with StarRez, a software platform that helps us work more closely with university housing. That announcement marked a real turning point in how we operate.