Matt Ali decided to sell Apreva to take chips off the table
Matt Ali · From Zero to a Business Ready to Sell · Jan 13, 2026 · at 5:25
Matt Ali, co-founder of Apreva, explains why the founding team chose to sell their profitable AI real estate platform rather than continuing to scale it.
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“I think it was just a good time to take some chips off the table. You know, we were just going at this for a really long time. And yeah, I think it was a good opportunity to just, you know, take some chips off the table and you know, look at what's next. Cause it's really fun. I think we really liked the sort of zero to one that we were able to do. And there's so many fun ideas and things to do in AI right now.”
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