{
  "id": 14474562,
  "title": "These Brothers Built a $1.1 Billion Company Without Venture Capital. Their Customers Funded It Upfront",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/these-brothers-built-a-1-1-billion-company-without-venture-capital",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-14T15:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/tobi-opeyemi-amure/easya-ai-billion-company-venture-capital-customers-upfront-funding/91418821"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "EasyA co-founders Phil and Dom Kwok funded growth with upfront payments from companies like Ripple and Google, and kept 100 percent of the equity.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}