Rob Schutz - Driving Ro's $7B Growth & Revolutionizing Domain Acquisition with Snagged.com

The Casey Adams Show

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Rob Schutz is a co-founder and board member of Ro, a healthcare technology company focused on creating a patient-centric healthcare system. Rob also serves as the Chief Growth Officer at Ro. In addition, Rob is the founder of Snagged.com, a company that helps businesses acquire premium domain names. Previously, Rob worked as the VP of Growth at BARK and as a Director of US Marketing and User Acquisition at kgb. Rob also co-founded and was the CEO of What's the Deal, a company that offered daily deals and events in the Washington DC area. Prior to their entrepreneurial ventures, Rob worked as a Senior Consultant in Healthcare at CGI, helping hospitals transition to digital record-keeping. Rob holds a BS in Management Information Systems from Penn State University.

Follow Rob on X: https://x.com/rob

Learn more about Snagged: https://www.snagged.com/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Overview of Roe

07:59 Transitioning from BarkBox to Starting Snag.com

14:37 Lessons from Early Startup Failures

23:17 Navigating the World of Premium Domains

30:34 The Power of Complementary Co-Founders

34:40 Assigning Value to Domains

38:40 Isaiah House: A Nonprofit Organization

42:36 Excitement for New Opportunities

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to the Casey Adams show. Today we are joined by Rob Schutz, the co-founder
0:07.0	of Row and Snagg.com. Rob, thank you so much to come on the show today.
0:12.0	Hey, thanks for having me, Casey. Appreciate it. Of course. So we connected quite a while ago on
0:17.0	Twitter, man, and I've truly been not only impressed by what you've built at Roe, but we initially
0:23.1	hit it off on all things, domains, and I'm a big fan of what you're up nowadays at snag.com.
0:29.3	But before we really dive into all the fun conversations in the story of, you know, what led you
0:34.1	to where you are today, I'd love for you to give a quick background and high-level overview of what row is
0:40.5	before we dive in and then how that led to, you know, launching Snag, which we'll dive into
0:45.3	all things and have a good time today.
0:48.5	Yeah.
0:49.1	And I'm happy to even take one one quick step prior to that, which might give you a little bit
0:54.0	more context. Of course. Into my weird and weird. happy to even take one one quick step out prior to that which might give you a little bit more
0:54.1	context of course into my weird weird and journey here yeah so i i kind of grew up around
1:02.8	performance marketing marketing brand comms is one of the first hires at a company called
1:09.0	bark box treats and toys for dogs at a new york city um and i got employee number It was one of the first hires of a company called Bark Box, Treats and Toys for Dogs,
1:11.5	at New York City.
1:13.4	Employee number seven.
1:14.4	Employee number seven, at least that's what I say.
1:17.9	Yeah, first marketing hire and got an opportunity to really go in and kind of learn
1:22.5	how to grow a business, how to market, how to use paid platforms, were very early on paid social,
1:30.7	and really just how to build a team. And so I got a very early taste of building a company.
1:37.5	And from there, I kind of got the itch to start something again I'd had back in the day, a daily deal startup
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