“We got the privilege of starting our own servicer, and then just building the software from scratch… the software got to evolve as the servicer was growing.”

The a16z Show · How Valon Rebuilt a $13 Trillion Industry From Scratch

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Started as a mortgage servicer first, then built the software in-house rather than selling a product to incumbents

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