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This Week in Startups

Building brands and community + influencer marketing that actually works with Dee Murthy | E1740

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Dee Murthy joins Jason to discuss the origin of the Group Chat podcast before talking about his new startup, Ghost (1:44). They then delve into fostering a community, staying true to your brand, and more! (30:12) 

(0:00) Dee Murthy joins Jason 

(1:44) The Origin of Group Chat podcast

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(13:06) The impact of the Group Chat podcast

(18:49) The premise of Ghost

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(24:15) Focusing on your customers and raising capital

(30:12) Fostering a community

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(39:00) Understanding your brand’s voice

(46:09) Effective influencer marketing 

(52:01) More on Ghost  


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0:00.0

Bud Light has never been a politically charged brand and their core consumer is just it's the

0:08.4

run-of-the-mill guy that watching the NFL. That is their core consumer. It's bros, right? Like,

0:14.0

I want to have a Bud Light when I'm at a football game. That's, you know, an end of it. Yeah.

0:18.8

That's it. And I appreciate their attempt to go younger, but like, it doesn't make sense.

0:25.2

You're an alcohol brand, you know, if you went to a 30-year-old consumer, it's not like they're

0:30.0

anti-anything. They just don't participate in that conversation. And they just honestly,

0:34.7

all they care about football and racing and basketball playoffs. It's a very simple-minded consumer.

0:41.3

And so I thought it was like inappropriate for Bud Light from a marketing strategy to do anything

0:47.1

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1:42.3

All right, everybody got a real treat for you today. I don't know. Last year somebody texted me

1:49.4

or DMed me on the Twitter and said, hey, this is a podcast that we're just talking about you and

1:55.6

they stole the format of all in. And I said, okay, let me go check that out. And I checked it out.

1:59.6

And I found this amazingly fun podcast called Group Chat. That's been around for two or three

2:04.4

years longer than all in. So quite the opposite. It seems like we have inadvertently stolen your

2:13.0

format. And one of the three hosts of that is Dean Murphy. He's also an entrepreneur. And I thought

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