So tell me your story a little bit here, Anthemos. So I guess what was the timeline of this C round compared to perhaps your seed round of 2012? So the majority of that is still in the bank but yeah, we raised money in capital [12:00]. I knew the CEO for a while. Got it. And then as we looked at the C round, Axle Springer are fantastic good example [19:59]. 77% of you were interested in a @zumper flex living pass 1.5 yrs ago Since then we - Added 500K+ flex listings - Launched a search UX for flex rentals We're now launching an MVP of Zumper Pass - a one & done subscription. So I guess without further ado, Anthemos Georgiades from Zumper, welcome aboard. Like many of our most successful entrepreneurs, Anthemos Georgiades was drawn into startup life to solving a burning problem. And so as you mature you look for a different kind of investor and that naturally tends to happen. Im so glad I did it. And then my other cofounder Kurt Taylor I met through his mother who was an [04:43] and it was another example of just pure hustle. Im so glad I did it. Anthemos Georgiades | Multifamily Executive Magazine So thats how Zumper got started. Because I speak with a ton of founders that are perhaps opening up the possibility of bringing on corporations and I think that you need to really do it right. And so I finally just gave in and thought no one is going to build this. Zumper - Contacts, Employees, Board Members, Advisors & Alumni - Crunchbase Saying that, in the early days you kind of need to bring on all the capital that you can. We both had ideas to be entrepreneurs but neither of us have the guts to actually go for it. The reality is often in the early stages, youre going to want to take all the capital thats given to you and you may not have multiple term sheets. Im the CEO and Ive always felt that it was my responsibility to do the fundraising. A lot of business schools was how to make decisions with imperfect information. How flat is the company? Anthemos Georgiades is CEO/Co-Founder at Zumper Inc. See Anthemos Georgiades's compensation, career history, education, & memberships. When you look your cofounders, your team in the eye and you know theyre ready to go and theyre resilient and they come back in to build and try the next thing and youve kind of worked out together this is part of the game. If you want me to do your fundraising for you, click here. Got it. But was drawn in to it just to solve a problem as I think so many entrepreneurs are. Its hard. At Zumper, based in San Francisco, he leads the company in its mission to make renting an apartment as easy as booking a hotel. So lets talk about Zumper here. Yeah, I think its probably the DNA of your culture is I think a lot of it is built in the tough times. And even though that sounds so obvious six years later, people just werent doing this in 2011, 2012 and we created a bunch of data that overwhelming shows the renters wanted to be applying for apartments from their phone. A lot of that is in the bank. Anthemos Georgiades: Oh wow, good question. And then when I moved out to America, Russel was software engineer at Google and I had no technical background so I basically hit up my network for anyone with a technical background living in the US who might be interested in joining and Russel and I really hit it off and he was the perfect cofounder. For every successful fundraise, every single company have a lot of nos. I mean I called it like a cheat [33:33] my team. It looks better for investors and it makes your life easier. Thats just part of the game. I grew up in London. Since 2012, Anth has grown Zumper to over 100 employees and raised $90 million in venture capital for the company.
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