The Future of Buying
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K 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.
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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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