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Francis Davidson On Building A $2.2 Billion Business By Turning Apartments Into Hotels

July 15, 2021

Francis Davidson launched his startup while still in school. That company now has over 1,000 employees and is going public through a SPAC deal. The venture Sonder has acquired funding from top-tier investors like Greenoaks Capital, Sandy Cass, Inovia Capital, and Spark Capital.

In this episode, you will learn:

* The book Francis wishes he would have read earlier
* His blog writing on scaling your startup to $1B
* Interviewing strategy and processes
* What’s important in fundraising as you graduate through different rounds

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About Francis Davidson:
Francis Davidson is the CEO of Sonder. He helped to establish the organization with Lucas Pellan in 2012.

They started leasing empty school condos, and now the organization is esteemed at in excess of a billion dollars. As of now, Sonder rents out condos to the clients through their site just as Airbnb and Expedia.

Francis Davidson’s Wikipedia page doesn’t exist as of now. Francis’ present age is 28 years. One can find out about Davidson’s profile and his organization on a few Wiki-bio pages. As of now, Francis is situated in San Francisco, California, USA.

Francis is dynamic on Twitter with more than 1.1k adherents and 34 tweets. Davidson joined the stage in September 2014 yet tweets less every now and again. Francis Davidson’s conjugal status isn’t known.





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