Pujji: Oversaw $2B-$3B in ad spend across Uber and Dollar Shave Club
Jesse Pujji · 5 startup ideas targeting profitable niches · Jul 15, 2024 · at 30:28
Jesse Pujji (Founder/CEO of Gateway X and former agency founder) shares metrics from his paid social background during a discussion on e-commerce acquisition strategy.
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“I've probably overseen over my career, two, three billion dollars in paid spend, right? We did it. We scaled Uber to a hundred million a year in 600 cities, Dollar Shave Club to, was spending three million a month with us for four years. Stitch Fix, Casper, you name it. And we basically ran and at least they're paid social, if not all of their digital.”
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