Dolly raised a $10M Series A and takes a 20% cut
Chad Wittman · Quick Way to Sell Your First Company For More Than $1m · Jan 19, 2016 · at 14:09
Chad Wittman, co-founder of moving startup Dolly, explains the company's funding and take-rate business model to Nathan Latka.
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“Yeah, so we've raised ten million bucks through a series A, and the way that people pay us is that they sign up, they use the app, they, we take a 20 percent-ish cut, depending on the job of everything that happens within the network.”
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