Your typical local startup founder these days likely grew up in Connecticut, graduated from Harvard Business School and lives in Manhattan or the trendier precincts of Brooklyn. Then there’s Ilir Sela, founder and chief executive of pizza-delivery platform Slice, which partners with 16,000 independent pizzerias nationwide, including half the 2,800 shops in New York City.
“He took scrappiness to a whole new level,” says Ben Sun, co-founder and general partner at Manhattan’s Primary Venture Partners, which participated in last month’s series D round raising $40 million for Slice. “It epitomizes New York.”Last week, Mr. Sela, who is 40 years old, drinks 10 black iced coffees a day and prefers a plain cheese slice, showed me his company’s first office—a second-story affair atop a hair salon overlooking the Staten Island Railway tracks.
“I had plans of a $1 million business,” he says of his company, which has generated more than $1 billion in pizza sales since it launched in 2010. “The idea was eventually we’d take over the whole building.”
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They used to pay the local boy a nickel to deliver pizzas now they are making billions!
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