TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. In the graphic above, notice that most of these companies play in the largest, but notoriously archaic industries like banking, insurance, real estate, healthcare, etc.

real estate 144

real estate incumbents health disruption 144

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

investing 116

investing investment venture capital peer-to-peer 116

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. Just eight years from founding to dominance with an entirely new model: the largest taxi company in the world owns no taxis and the largest hotelier in the world owns no real estate. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B

real estate 40

real estate startup incumbents sustainability 40

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

YC Companies: Enode , Evoly , inBalance , Pelm Electric vehicle value chain Electric cars are winning personal transportation technology. These are big markets: just aviation and shipping, both of which are growing fast, represent 20% of all transportation emissions in the world.

energy 97

energy startup transportation construction 97

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? Bill Gurley : Well, industries get more regulated and incumbents write the regulation. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. Simply put, there is amble room for improvement.

health 43

health VC hospitality disruption 43