Glass: Enduring difficult point-of-sale integrations built Olo's competitive moat
Noah Glass · 20VC: Scaling to $122M ARR IPO with $6M in Net Burn, Olo. The Ultimate Journey of Capital Efficiency, What Worked, What Did Not Work and How Leaders Need To Reshape Thinking Around Resource and Attention Allocation · Apr 29, 2022 · at 6:33
Noah Glass is the founder and CEO of restaurant SaaS company Olo. He explains how enduring difficult legacy point-of-sale integrations gave Olo a long-term competitive moat.
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“If we can endure, if we can outlast our competitors, if we can integrate into systems in the restaurant that Point of sale systems that weren't meant to be integrated into, if we can get through that suck, we'll be in a place that nobody else will be able to stay with us.”
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