doorkee
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Doorkee was a New York-based peer-to-peer rental platform founded in 2019 by John Fagan and Jordan Franklin. It connected landlords, departing tenants, and apartment seekers in a single digital workflow covering virtual tours, digital lease signing, and rent payment management, aiming to cut broker fees and vacancy time between tenancies.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Product or service closed
NYC peer-to-peer rental startup Doorkee (John Fagan / Jordan Franklin) ceased operations the prior Monday (11 Aug 2025 per PitchBook as cited); executive emails bounced.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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