Stories Behind The Door With nodaFi CEO and Co-Founder Jacob Pandl

Key Takeways

nodaFi CEO & Co-founder Jacob Pandl sat down (live!) with Thaddeus Cambell on Stories Behind the Door to share his path from building an OpenTable-style app for his parents' restaurant (that they didn’t exactly adopt 😅) to co-founding nodaFi, a software redefining facility operations in self-storage.

The episode dives into:
- How an idea and simple QR-code tool at the University of Wisconsin became a platform used across industries
- Why self-storage is ripe for tech innovation
- The surprising pushback tech gets in “pen and paper” industries and when it breaks down for the new people coming in
- The power of hiring industry veterans like Jessie Lamb to scale wisely
- And how generational shifts and AI are shaping the future of facility ops

“Software is often built for other software companies. There's a massive opportunity in solving real-world problems that tech has historically overlooked.”