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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”.

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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Revenue acceleration is, too.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. There’s a culture in Silicon Valley that moves fast and breaks things, right? Bill Gurley : Well, industries get more regulated and incumbents write the regulation. Why will that happen?

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products.

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products.

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Online grocery company Misfits Market to acquire Imperfect Foods

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, Imperfect Foods, founded in 2015 to rescue and redistribute goods, brought in a total of $229 million, including a $110 million Series D round last year. Indeed, both companies have similar financial and cultural synergies, Ramesh said, including a focus on eliminating food waste. In the U.S.