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Exhausted your list of books, shows and podcasts over Easter? Guardian Australia's Pacific Editor Ben Doherty, and Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland Sarah Percy have some fresh 'picks' for you to enjoy.
Ben Doherty | Photo credit: CrunchBase The company was founded in 2018 by Ben Doherty and Zachary Maurais, high school best friends and the entrepreneurs behind the delivery app Favor. The journey from food delivery to rentals was actually a natural one, Doherty told Inman. “We had thought about all of our past experiences leasing properties and thought, man that’s a space that reminds me a lot of food delivery,” Doherty said. Popular delivery apps like GrubHub were extremely successful at getting menus online, but where Doherty believed they failed was with the actual process of delive...
From food delivery to housing: Former Favor founders raise millions for Sunroom Rentals Real estate tech startup Sunroom Rentals, which leases units on behalf of property managers and apartment owners, has raised $11 million in a Series A round of funding led by Gigafund. Ben Doherty and Zachary Maurais, former founders of the delivery app Favor, launched Sunroom in May 2018 with the mission of “boosting the profitability” of mid-size property managers and apartment owners by giving them a way to outsource their leasing operations. The pair sold Favor to Texas grocer H-E-B in 2018 and soo...
Wall Street v the internet: inside the 5 February Guardian Weekly Will Dean There was grim news from Myanmar on Monday morning when Aung San Suu Kyi and the country’s democratically elected leaders were arrested and replaced by the military. Despite the removal of the junta and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest a decade ago, the power of the generals never truly diminished – mainly thanks to a constitution they wrote to ensure that fact. Correspondents Rebecca Ratcliffe, Ben Doherty and Hannah Ellis-Petersen try to make sense of this sudden shift back to mi...
December 13, 2020 16-year-old goalie Paxton Geisel stopped 36 shots as the St. Cloud Norsemen won their first game of the season, defeating the Minot Minotauros 3-1. Odessa 2 @ Shreveport 3 (OT) - The Shreveport Mudbugs scored their second overtime win in consecutive nights as Dawson Sciarrino buried a highlight reel goal midway through the extra period. Sciarrino finished with a goal and an assist. Matt Weber’s power play goal got the Mudbugs on the board after Odessa got out to a 2-0 lead. Dilan Peters’ first goal of the season tied the game at two to force overtime and led to Sciarri...