Opzi
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Opzi was a Palo Alto startup founded in 2010 by Euwyn Poon (Cornell graduate at 18, J.D. 2007, ex-M&A lawyer), backed by Y Combinator. It built a Quora-like question-and-answer platform for businesses: employees logged in with a corporate email to ask and answer questions, building a crowd-sourced FAQ that the company pitched as a better form of enterprise search - 'a search engine that helps people solve a problem' rather than digging through databases. It raised nearly $1 million from SV Angel, First Round Capital, Naval Ravikant, SoftTech VC, Paul Buchheit and others.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and launched
Opzi was founded in 2010 as a stealth Y Combinator startup; it debuted its enterprise Q&A platform at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2010 after raising nearly $1 million in angel funding.
- Wound down
The standalone enterprise Q&A product was wound down around 2013; Opzi's technology lived on as the software platform behind First Round Capital's First Round Network, and founder Euwyn Poon moved on (he became a partner at Moso Capital in January 2014 and later founded scooter company Spin).
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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