“We raised money from influencers and we also gave them equity and in fact, paid them to promote in equity instead of cash”
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Created a for-profit company that connects paying political candidates with social-media influencers who promote them
“We raised money from influencers and we also gave them equity and in fact, paid them to promote in equity instead of cash”
“You might have a podcast… turn that into a blog post and a social media post… if I did the podcast with somebody who has a large social following, I’m going to have them promote it”
“We convinced the Swiss… worked intensively on a brand transformation… influencers, social media, content creators… took about 18 months.”
“I went to them and said, can I bring my company inside your company and I will pay you a percentage of sales. And they agreed to it. And I used to pay them 5%. So in 2012, I paid them $10,000 in rent. We got up to like 500,000, I think in 13, something like that.”
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