
A school newspaper, a poetry phase, a football trip and a stalled funding campaign. Doug Monro’s route to building Adzuna has involved rather more than a good search algorithm.

A bagel shop, a DVD envelope, a property search and a car transporter: Alex Chesterman kept finding British businesses in American ideas. Zoopla made the method look persuasive. Cazoo exposed its limits.
Zoopla gets the clicks. Alto handles the paperwork. Hometrack helps lenders price the risk. Now an agreed sale is redrawing the property group that brought them together.