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from Inside Hook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Death of a Car Salesman: How Soon Will We All Be Buying Our Cars Online?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Carvana \u2014 one of the tech world’s biggest pandemic winners \u2014 is applying lessons from Tesla and Amazon in the used-car market<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY <\/strong>ALEX LAUER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Carvana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You probably know Carvana for their car vending machines, but they’ve got much bigger plans. Gabe Serrano for InsideHook\/Carvana\/Getty<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the history books, the car story of the pandemic will be, without a doubt, Tesla. Elon Musk\u2019s electric vehicle maker captured the attention of financial leaders, other automakers and the general public due to the company\u2019s meteoric stock market rise (as well as the CEO\u2019s dangerous, brainless Twitter rhetoric<\/a>). When we tried to figure out<\/a> how a relatively small automaker became the most valuable in the world, one expert summed it up like this: Tesla is not a traditional car manufacturer, it\u2019s a tech company, and as such it has much greater potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carvana certainly isn\u2019t as sexy as Tesla, but it\u2019s the other car story you need to know from the pandemic, one with potentially more immediate impacts on your life. And it has many of the same hallmarks: the company\u2019s business model seems simple \u2014 an online used car retailer you probably know from their distinctive \u201cvending machines\u201d \u2014 but it\u2019s their proprietary tech that\u2019s important. They\u2019ve gained prominence in a short time, becoming the second largest used car retailer in the U.S. in eight years, and the stock price has been on a tear this year, hitting a high in March 2021 that was almost triple the company\u2019s high before the pandemic was declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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