Founder’s Friday: How I Built and Sold My B2B Marketplace in 4 years

About this event We will be sitting down with Victor Hunt. He founded and sold Astorian.com, a marketplace helping building owners hire contractors. Victor founded Astorian in 2017 at Yale, raised $2.2m in VC funding, scaled it to 30 cities, partnered with Zillow and Opendoor then sold to Plentific in 2022. Now he is exploring new ideas across AI, govtech, and helping small business grow. He's currently backed by South Park Commons on his new journey. We will be discussing: -Biggest lesson learned launching and running his 1st tech startup -Insights he most often shares with early-stage founders on building a B2B marketplace -Victor's best advise on hiring and fundraising -Whatever else you’d like to hear from Bay during Q&A **You will receive an email with a Zoom link the day before the event. This is the 2nd out of 8 LIVE workshops in the 2023 Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge. This workshop is open to everyone. You do not need to sign up for the Challenge to take this workshop. However, if you're looking to participant in the 2023 Challenge, you are required to take minimum four workshops in order to be qualified to compete and an opportunity to win 20,000 grant award. Learn more at: Queensstartup.org