PhoneSys
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
PhoneSys (formerly Pingm) was a Mountain View, California business-communications startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2011 batch, co-founded by David Dolphin. Little public information survives about its product beyond business phone/communications software.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
David Dolphin co-founds PhoneSys (formerly Pingm) in Mountain View; it joins Y Combinator's Summer 2011 batch.
- Founder departs
Co-founder and CEO David Dolphin leaves PhoneSys (June 2011–January 2015); he had already joined Airbnb as an engineer in 2012. No public record of a shutdown or acquisition of PhoneSys has been found.
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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