WHEN Bill Smith moved to San Francisco in 2016 to work on his grocery-delivery startup, the most annoying part was finding an apartment.
Poring through rental listings in an unfamiliar city, calling the gas company, waiting for an internet connection – the entrepreneur had little patience for any of it. So, after Smith sold his company, Shipt, to Target Inc in 2017 for US$550mil (RM2.3bil), he decided to use some of that cash to do something about it.
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