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Leventhal: Resy was not profitable when acquired by American Express
“We were in sight of it when we sold it to Amex. We were not profitable.”
Visram: Happy Family raised $8M in three weeks using an Amex email
“And all I had to do was take that email from Amex and email it around, and I raised eight million dollars in three weeks.”
Visram: Happy Family revenue tripled from $13M to $39M
“Thirty nine million went from thirteen million to thirty nine million.”
Visram leveraged an Amex campaign email to raise $8M in weeks
“And all I had to do was take that email from Amex and email it around, and I raised eight million dollars in three weeks.”
Rypka: Torchy's co-founder charged $15,000 of pumpkins to the company Amex
“Unbeknownst to me, he puts, you know, I think it was around 15,000 dollars worth of pumpkins on our business Amex card.”
Leventhal: Resy cut fees to zero during COVID, setting industry precedent
“We did two things, and we did them very fast, and then the industry followed. One is, we cut fees to zero. We thought it was really important, symbolically, to say, we are not in a position to be collecting money from restaurants right now, and a lot of the in…”
Kaye pitched Bitcoin at Digitas when it traded at five cents
“I famously love to remind myself that I worked on American Express in the membership rewards program, and I was in charge of sharing a project about alternative currencies as we were thinking about how to talk about membership rewards as a real value propositi…”
Trout: Amex denied Health-Ade's request to extend $50,000 credit limit
“We had a 50,000 dollar credit limit, and we just assumed that Amex would extend our credit because we were good about paying it in full every month, you know, so we were like, oh, it's not going to be a problem. I mean, we've been great customers, you know, an…”