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🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Squire Technologies CEO and cofounder Songe LaRon joined Forbes senior writer Jabari Young at the Nasdaq MarketSite to update the New York-based software company. In 2021, Forbes reported Squire reached a $747 million valuation after a $60 million raise that attracted investors, including NBA star Stephen Curry and entertainer Trevor Noah.
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0:00.0 | As long as human beings are roaming the earth, there'll always be barbershops and hair salons. |
0:04.9 | And in a minute, we'll introduce you to the entrepreneur who built the perfect software platform to capitalize a Forbes next billion dollar startup alum coming up at the NASDAQ. |
0:16.6 | Hello everyone, this is Jabari Young here at the NASDAQ, and I am joined by Sange LaRan. |
0:22.6 | He is the CEO co-founder of Squire Technologies. |
0:26.2 | Squire is a barbershop management platform, handles transactions for stylists, makes money from transaction fees, |
0:32.3 | and the company has raised over $160 million since 2016. |
0:38.3 | Top investors include Steph Curry, Trevor Noah. |
0:41.3 | I wish it was me, but I'm not. |
0:43.3 | Sange, man, thank you so much for joining us at the NASDAQ man. |
0:46.3 | And welcome. |
0:47.3 | Thank you. |
0:48.3 | I'm honored to be here. |
0:49.3 | Yeah, man. |
0:50.3 | Is this your first time? |
0:51.3 | Oh, it is. |
0:52.3 | Wow, wow. |
0:53.3 | Man, we can make it happen, man. Hey, listen, we're something like we're introducing you, reintroducing you to our audience because we wrote about you in 2001, right, when you're a next billion dollar startup. My colleague, Amy Feldman, did a great job writing that piece. But before we go and talk in the business and find out what Squire is up to, we're here at the |
1:12.1 | NASDAQ, right? So you got to give me a stock, right? What has worked for you over time that's just |
1:16.8 | been phenomenal? I'll give you a recent one. I'm not a big trader. But there's a company called |
1:23.9 | Service Titan. I don't know if you've heard of it, they went public recently. |
1:28.3 | They're essentially kind of like Squire business management software before the trades. |
1:33.3 | Yeah. |
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