Procore built unrelated $30k custom software projects to cover early payroll
Tooey Courtemanche · Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Dec 4, 2023 · at 17:18
Tooey Courtemanche, founder and CEO of Procore, explains how the company survived financial constraints before scaling its core construction platform.
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“Customers would ask us to do custom development on a new application and, you know, if they're gonna pay us 30,000 dollars for a month's worth of work, we would literally Put two engineers on it and just ship a piece of software that had nothing to do with Procore for them, just to keep the lights on.”
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