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Noah Glass (Olo)
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Noah Glass is the founder & CEO of [[Olo]], a [[software-as-a-service]] company that provides digital ordering and delivery systems for the restaurant industry. Olo is incorporated as Mobo Systems Inc. and is based in New York.<ref name="Bloomberg Overview"></ref> Glass founded the company in 2005 as GoMobo, a text-based system that allowed customers to pre-order and pay for take-out orders from their mobile phone, so the food would be ready for pick-up when they arrived at the restaurant.<ref name="QSR, Zolman Kirk, March 2019">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Beginning with coffee shops in New Haven in 2005, he expanded to New York in May 2006.<ref name="Entrepreneur, Ball, Jan 2007">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Glass had planned to go to business school, but when he was offered seed capital of $500,000 to develop his idea, he decided to put those plans on hold.<ref name="QSR, Zolman Kirk, March 2019" />
By 2006, Glass had signed up 24 restaurants in New Haven and New York, including select locations of [[Dunkin' Donuts]].<ref name="WSJ, Ali, 9/20/2006">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="Entrepreneur, Ball, Jan 2007" /> By the end of 2007, GoMobo was working with by 60 restaurants, and Glass was seeking additional outside funding. <ref name="Inc. Chakin, 9/2007">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> The marketing was "very guerrilla ... literally wearing sandwich boards and yelling and handing out flyers."<ref name="NY Mag, 7/31/2009"></ref>
Since founding the company, Glass has moved Olo from being a customer-facing application to focus on providing business-to-business software that restaurants and delivery services use to enable online ordering, [[food delivery]] and pick-up.<ref name="Cramer, Mad Money, 10/16/2015"></ref> "We are invisible to the consumer," he told CNBC in 2015.<ref></ref>
Glass has been featured as a business innovator in [[Businessweek]]<ref name="Businessweek, Future of Tech 12/2006"></ref><ref></ref> and has been cited an influential entrepreneur in the restaurant industry.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref name="QSR, Zolman Kirk, March 2019" />
==References==
By 2006, Glass had signed up 24 restaurants in New Haven and New York, including select locations of [[Dunkin' Donuts]].<ref name="WSJ, Ali, 9/20/2006">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="Entrepreneur, Ball, Jan 2007" /> By the end of 2007, GoMobo was working with by 60 restaurants, and Glass was seeking additional outside funding. <ref name="Inc. Chakin, 9/2007">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> The marketing was "very guerrilla ... literally wearing sandwich boards and yelling and handing out flyers."<ref name="NY Mag, 7/31/2009"></ref>
Since founding the company, Glass has moved Olo from being a customer-facing application to focus on providing business-to-business software that restaurants and delivery services use to enable online ordering, [[food delivery]] and pick-up.<ref name="Cramer, Mad Money, 10/16/2015"></ref> "We are invisible to the consumer," he told CNBC in 2015.<ref></ref>
Glass has been featured as a business innovator in [[Businessweek]]<ref name="Businessweek, Future of Tech 12/2006"></ref><ref></ref> and has been cited an influential entrepreneur in the restaurant industry.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref name="QSR, Zolman Kirk, March 2019" />
==References==
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