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TechCrunch
JANUARY 22, 2021
Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. How to communicate with your board in tough times. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. More posts by this contributor.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. Public Storage does about $2.4 Little old us.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 7, 2022
Retail investment behemoth Robinhood laid off 23% of its staff — just 3 months after letting go of 9% of its workforce. For years, the real estate technology company has touted itself as using its pricing technology to provide “more accurate offers and lower costs,” said the FTC. Another day, another Q2 funding report.
TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2022
Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. And that’s been happening pretty clearly… Now, with that said, I think that there’s still a lot of appetite [for fintech] across the board. And instead of eight term sheets, you’re going to get two. Well, that’s it for this week!
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2022
While it invested mostly on its product in 2021, it plans to put some of its new capital toward its go to market strategy while continuing to be “heads down focused on product.” That includes expanding its product and engineering teams and investing in AI and machine learning capabilities. .
TechCrunch
JUNE 23, 2021
“We were immediately intrigued because Ohio-based Lower echoes both of these themes,” said Accel partner John Locke, who led the firm’s investment in Lower and is taking a seat on the company’s board as part of the investment. Like Galileo, Lower will be one of the most successful bootstrapped fintech companies globally.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 25, 2022
Institutional Adoption Over the years, I maintained an active interest in crypto, continuing to invest in coins (some great, some garbage), and kept reading and learning more. Companies like Microstrategy were investing large portions of their treasuries in Bitcoin. In early 2021, Tesla also announced their own investment into Bitcoin.
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