Pinata generated zero revenue during its 2021 pilot testing phase
Lily Liu · She saved equity, used dev shop for new PropTech SaaS, breaks $1m in revenue · May 31, 2022 · at 15:17
Lily Liu, founder and CEO of Pinata, explains the company's early zero-revenue pilot phase to Nathan Latka.
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“So about a year ago, early if we rewind early, 20, 21, we actually were not generating any revenue. And so we were Just coming off of that pilot phase where we weren't charging property management companies anything to use our platform. We were really running the MVP tests.”
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