February 25, 2021

#277: Wisam Dakka, Co-Founder of Meemo, an Innovative Social Finance Platform Changing Users' Relationship with Money, on Building Consumer Products, Being an Engineer at Google and Snap, and Managing a Remote Team

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52 minutes

Wisam Dakka is the co-founder of Meemo, an AI-powered social finance app where your digital wallet meets your everyday life. Meemo allows you to send and receive money to friends and family, and is delighting users with automatic rewards based on their recent activity. This includes personalized offers and shopping deals, Weekly Review stories, useful transaction-based notifications, and more. The secure app can also be used to search and sort through accounts and transactions, and enjoy shareable insights uncovered by Meemo's powerful AI. Wisam Dakka and his co-founder, André Madeira are longtime product developers, coders and engineers who previously worked at Snap and Google.

Some of the Topics Covered by Wisam Dakka in this Episode

What Meemo is and where the idea came from
The landscape for this type of service and having Google and Apple as potential competitors
How Meemo is building trust with its users
How they've gone about prioritizing features and why they had to have a unique approach
Meemo's go-to-market strategy and how it has been affected by COVID
How they have begun to acquire customers and how they've shifted their strategy
How they have adapted the way their team works during COVID and keeping a remote team engaged
What's next for Meemo
Insights on building a consumer product that Wisam gained from working in big tech
The transition from working in big tech to building a startup

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February 25, 2021

#277: Wisam Dakka, Co-Founder of Meemo, an Innovative Social Finance Platform Changing Users' Relationship with Money, on Building Consumer Products, Being an Engineer at Google and Snap, and Managing a Remote Team

Listen Later

52 minutes

Wisam Dakka is the co-founder of Meemo, an AI-powered social finance app where your digital wallet meets your everyday life. Meemo allows you to send and receive money to friends and family, and is delighting users with automatic rewards based on their recent activity. This includes personalized offers and shopping deals, Weekly Review stories, useful transaction-based notifications, and more. The secure app can also be used to search and sort through accounts and transactions, and enjoy shareable insights uncovered by Meemo's powerful AI. Wisam Dakka and his co-founder, André Madeira are longtime product developers, coders and engineers who previously worked at Snap and Google.

Some of the Topics Covered by Wisam Dakka in this Episode

What Meemo is and where the idea came from
The landscape for this type of service and having Google and Apple as potential competitors
How Meemo is building trust with its users
How they've gone about prioritizing features and why they had to have a unique approach
Meemo's go-to-market strategy and how it has been affected by COVID
How they have begun to acquire customers and how they've shifted their strategy
How they have adapted the way their team works during COVID and keeping a remote team engaged
What's next for Meemo
Insights on building a consumer product that Wisam gained from working in big tech
The transition from working in big tech to building a startup

Sign up for The Grind, for actionable insights and stories from successful entrepreneurs delivered to your inbox once per week: https://www.justgogrind.com/newsletter/

Listen to all episodes of the Just Go Grind Podcast: https://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/

Follow Justin Gordon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/justingordon212

Follow Justin Gordon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justingordon8/

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