OrderAhead is a mobile ordering and payments company that enables millions of users to order pickup from thousands of local merchants.
OrderAhead is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2011 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Order ahead for pickup. The founders listed are Jeffrey Byun (Founder/CEO), Henry A. Lee (Founder/CTO/Head of Engineering), Ruddick Lawrence (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 17, 2012).
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OrderAhead is a mobile ordering and payments company that enables millions of users to order pickup from thousands of local merchants.
Jeffrey Byun
Founder/CEO
2x YC founder (W11, P26), CEO of Akkari, and former bond trader. Previously scaled OrderAhead (acq by Square) to millions of users and BLADE to $1.2B+ in monthly trading volume.
Henry A. Lee
Founder/CTO/Head of Engineering
Co-founder at Akkari; 2x YC; Stanford CS. Built OrderAhead (W11, acq by Square) to millions of users and thousands of merchants, then scaled BLADE, a crypto derivatives exchange to >$1.2B monthly trading volume.
Ruddick Lawrence
Founder/CTO
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