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Andrew Yang Podcast

The Future of Buying

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It’s the first episode of our 12-part limited series! Zach sits down with two CEOs and experts in e-commerce, Jesse Horwitz (Hubble Contacts) and Melanie Travis (Andie Swim), to talk about how today’s companies sell their products and why e-commerce is transforming the future of buying.

Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nqe57AqYIXo

Follow Jesse Horwitz: https://twitter.com/jessehorwitz | https://www.instagram.com/sellingnaked

Follow Melanie Travis: https://twitter.com/melanietravis | https://www.instagram.com/melanietravis

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Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/AndrewYang | https://instagram.com/andrewyang

Transcript

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0:00.0

We don't just like send swimsuit ads into the wild, right?

0:02.6

Like we use Facebook to target women, first of all, women,

0:06.7

because that's all the product we sell who are likely to buy a swimsuit.

0:10.1

And that is what has kept our customer acquisition cost low.

0:13.6

It's what has enabled us to scale as a good business likely to buy a swimsuit.

0:18.3

That's not simple.

0:19.2

That's probably what thousands of data points that Facebook, right?

0:23.6

I mean, that's why I'm on Facebook.

0:25.1

On one hand, Facebook existence is very, very good for smaller companies like you.

0:32.4

Yes.

0:33.2

And I think as a consumer, the smaller companies are amazing.

0:36.4

At the same time, the more of these little companies that sprout up,

0:41.3

Facebook's monopoly gets bigger.

0:44.1

This whole push pull of supporting the little guy, but also supporting the giant, you know.

0:48.6

It's wild.

0:49.7

Could you imagine more extreme dynamic of this?

0:51.5

You have...

0:52.5

On the one hand, this is literally...

0:54.8

This is literally the most efficient system ever created to extend small loans and working

0:59.4

capital to mom and pop businesses, whether they're digital or offline or both.

1:04.3

And so it's great.

1:05.5

And you literally couldn't replicate it.

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