Shaw: Much of Better Agency's competition isn't on the cloud
Will Shaw · BetterAgency CRM for Insurance Hits $1m ARR, Raises $2m on $15m Valuation · Jul 3, 2021 · at 14:38
Will Shaw describes the legacy landscape of the insurance software market to Nathan Latka.
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“There's a lot of things we run into where companies have been in this space since the eighties and nineties. And a lot of them haven't, you know, a lot of our competition isn't even necessarily on the cloud.”
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