I Don't Want to Put Imaginative Numbers on a Deck

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Alan: "I didn't want to put imaginary numbers on a deck where what i wanted to put on the deck is ho much fun sto grow" He and his co-founder, orin seve, raised two million dollars in less than three months. Recons says they met through their small network of friends at coffee places. The company now has more than 100 employees around the world.

When Adi Tartako and her husband started the home design and renovation website Houzz in 2009, they had no expectation that it would grow into a global business. In fact, Adi was a hesitant entrepreneur, preferring to foster Houzz as a lifestyle business and pushing back when experts told her it could grow into something much bigger. But as Houzz morphed into a go-to site for users to get ideas for home improvement and connect with industry professionals, Adi decided to go all-in. She walked away from a promising career in finance to become the CEO of Houzz, helping lead it to a platform that now has 65 million users worldwide.

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