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Chris Moustakas and the trouble with a clever idea
From DevonWay’s nuclear-industry software to YuzeData’s connected systems, Chris Moustakas has kept returning to one question: how does a useful idea become something people can actually work with?
Quickbase Built a $200 Million Business Fixing the Work Your Big Software Forgot
Quickbase lives in the awkward gap between a spreadsheet that cannot scale and an enterprise system that will not bend. Its wager: the people closest to the work should be able to build the missing software - without giving IT a governance migraine.
Supermove
Supermove is a San Francisco software company that builds an end-to-end operating system for moving and storage companies. It replaces the industry's paper contracts, bills of lading, and manual dispatch with cloud apps for sales, scheduling, crew management, e-signatures, payments, and accounting - and more recently AI voice agents that answer calls and qualify leads. Founded in 2019 by two Berkeley engineers, it raised an $18M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2022 and serves more than 100 moving companies.