Zola

“When we looked at decades and decades of history, we saw The number of people that get married every year is remarkably consistent. Through depressions, through boom times, no matter what the decade, it's a very consistent number every single year. Even as, yo…”

“His, I still remember his words to this day, which is, I've always wanted to do something in weddings. Love to work with you guys again. Why don't I just give you the funding and we'll do it together?”

“What we heard again and again was that people wanted fundamentally different things than what they were getting from department store registries, which dominated the market at the time. They wanted Products as well as experiences and cash. They wanted to fully…”

“When you can start to see, both in your product feedback and in your P&L, that, that you have that word of mouth going, that you have that viral network effect, which is inherent in, in weddings, but once you see that, that is the time where you can continue t…”

“And so, it was an incredibly fun, special wedding, and also One of those wedding registries that sparked the idea for Zola.”

“We very quickly launched Zola Home, which is essentially a kind of home website where you could buy anything you need for your home. It was already using the assortment that we had for our wedding registry, and that really, that was one of the things that help…”

“There was one instance where the Hallmark Channel refused to run our ads that showed same-sex couples.”

“Where actually from probably the first day we launched Zola, we also heard requests for, oh, can I use this for my baby registry? And it took us 10 years, but we finally decided it was time to do that.”

“The, we spent the first four years on that one product, but we heard from day one of launch, oh, could you please help me with this and You know, in my wedding planning, can you also help me with my wedding website, because my registry already has all my infor…”