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EP10: Alanna Gregory, founder VIVE and Sr Director at Afterpay, on marketplace economics, growth marketing at Afterpay, and how NFTs could become lot more mainstream
In this conversation with Alanna we talked about pivotal moments in Alanna’s journey from working on emerging markets research on Wall St, to founding a YC backed marketplace startup, to growth marketing leader at Afterpay. Alanna has a broad and unique perspective on startups, fintech and crypto, and in this conversation we cover a wide range of topics across all three.
Episode Highlights
- Starting her career on Wall St during the 2008 financial crisis
- Culture working in finance vs tech
- Founding VIVE — what drove her to marketplaces
- Vision to build a marketplace that helps salons acquire customers
- Explosive early demand — 14,000 customer waitlist
- Challenging unit economics — trade-offs between unlimited usage and credit system
- Explorations — marketplace vs SaaS vs bundling CPG products
- Key learning — PMF is about finding and meeting demand in a scalable way, unit economics and margins important even at early stages
- Joining AfterPay to lead growth marketing for engagement and retention
- Approach towards consumer vs merchant, and checkout product vs standalone app
- Thoughts on fintech and potential risks in the system
- How startups build/validate a new lending product as a startup and risks to manage
- Thoughts on DeFi and NFTs — both quickly going more and more mainstream
- How NFTs and e-commerce could merge and enable new products and marketing levers
- Thoughts on what might happen if interest rates go up — mental model on opportunities if markets retreat or become more volatile
- Super powers on spotting talent and hiring, people who have her a break, and books
Links
- Follow Alanna @alannaeve on Twitter
Hit subscribe to keep up with new episodes!
Follow Ashish and Zane on Twitter for summaries
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By Ashish Kundra and Zane Salim
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In this conversation with Alanna we talked about pivotal moments in Alanna’s journey from working on emerging markets research on Wall St, to founding a YC backed marketplace startup, to growth marketing leader at Afterpay. Alanna has a broad and unique perspective on startups, fintech and crypto, and in this conversation we cover a wide range of topics across all three.
Episode Highlights
- Starting her career on Wall St during the 2008 financial crisis
- Culture working in finance vs tech
- Founding VIVE — what drove her to marketplaces
- Vision to build a marketplace that helps salons acquire customers
- Explosive early demand — 14,000 customer waitlist
- Challenging unit economics — trade-offs between unlimited usage and credit system
- Explorations — marketplace vs SaaS vs bundling CPG products
- Key learning — PMF is about finding and meeting demand in a scalable way, unit economics and margins important even at early stages
- Joining AfterPay to lead growth marketing for engagement and retention
- Approach towards consumer vs merchant, and checkout product vs standalone app
- Thoughts on fintech and potential risks in the system
- How startups build/validate a new lending product as a startup and risks to manage
- Thoughts on DeFi and NFTs — both quickly going more and more mainstream
- How NFTs and e-commerce could merge and enable new products and marketing levers
- Thoughts on what might happen if interest rates go up — mental model on opportunities if markets retreat or become more volatile
- Super powers on spotting talent and hiring, people who have her a break, and books
Links
- Follow Alanna @alannaeve on Twitter
Hit subscribe to keep up with new episodes!
Follow Ashish and Zane on Twitter for summaries
Click here to give feedback — it only takes a minute.