Youre Your Own Best Customer: A conversation with Ryan Coon from Avail

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 1:41 p.m.

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Sometimes businesses come from identifying a need in the marketplace\\u2014other times they come from identifying your own.

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Ryan Coon was a DIY landlord who needed to manage the time-consuming process of finding and screening tenants, signing leases, collecting rent, and performing maintenance, and he realized there was no current technology solutions for these problems.

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So he started Avail, which now serves over 150,000 landlords and 400,000 tenants.

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Ryan tells us his story of leaving the world of financing to start a tech company and why merely having a great product isn\\u2019t enough.

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