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

On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark. That is one reason why a number of VC firms have told their portfolio companies to focus on performance and cut costs,” he told TechCrunch. Guess we’ll see about that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. 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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

In fact, Galileo founder Clay Wilkes introduced the VC firm to Dan Snyder, Lower’s founder and CEO. 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.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Because people don't love the incumbent right now. So if you're searching for a real estate Boston or something like that, it'll look at all the pages that's indexed. It's like, okay, well, these set of pages are about real estate in Boston to varying degrees. And she would later join HubSpot board.

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