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James Chuck

@jamespchuck
1 posts
2021-09-26
Congrats to ⁦@ToastTab⁩ and their smart approach: “We focused on the middle of the country, which was mostly overlooked.” Built a $30 billion business by defying Silicon Valley and surviving a ‘suicide mission’. Looks like Silicon Valley got burnt.😂 https://www.cnbc.com/...
2021-09-26 View on X
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How Toast, founded in Boston with a $500K investment from Endeca's Steve Papa after VCs shunned it, became a $30B business, in part by avoiding the Bay Area

- Toast's first backer, Steve Papa, invested in the company because no venture capital firm would write the initial check. Tweets: @jordannovet , @strngwys , @luoshengpeng , @arbug...