10 Year Anniversary Post
On April 2, 2015, we cracked open the wooden door in an old office building in downtown Princeton with nothing more than an idea and some used office furniture (see photo). That evening, we attended the Vessel Owner’s Dinner in Philadelphia to see if we could find anyone looking for tank storage and, hopefully, match them up with a storage facility that had tanks on offer. Without taking on any investors or borrowing any funds, we plowed ahead with our idea and the prevailing mission to help people and have fun while doing it. It took 10’s of thousands of phone calls and countless instant messages and, yes, 520 weekly email newsletters. Since then, we’ve matched up 5,292 companies looking for storage with facilities that were interested in consummating some kind of storage arrangement with those companies we presented to them. The storage transactions included crude oil, petroleum products, chemicals, railcars, railcar storage, transloaders and entire storage terminals for sale. We’re proud of the fact that tomorrow we’re celebrating our 10 year anniversary as an ongoing business. We’re well aware of the fact that most startups don’t make it that far. It’s a testament to the proof of concept of the value added that The Tank Tiger has brought to this industry. We now have an online peer to peer marketplace platform that has provided us with infinite bandwidth to conduct even more transactions. With more than 1000 users and 600 different companies signed up to use the platform, and this number growing daily, we truly believe that we can offer transparency and efficiency to facilitate the process of securing storage.
After 10 years, we continue to subscribe to our corporate mission of helping people while having fun. We do business to bring smiles on your face. Your satisfaction matters the most to us. Who would have thought we would have been covered in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business Week, Reuters, the Financial Times, the BBC and The New York Times? Without all of your support it would not be our reality. On this special event of our anniversary, we want you to know that your trust in us has always been the biggest drivers for our continued growth. Thank you to all our family, friends, and customers who have supported us in our journey thus far. Thank you for inspiring us in all these years. Your satisfaction is what motivates us to thrive continuously in the market. We certainly know we wouldn’t be here without you. To that end, we wanted to wish ourselves Happy Anniversary! We’re excited to see what the next 10 years will bring.
