Alessandro Biggi

Co-Founder, Avocaderia · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alessandro Biggi founded the collaborative storytelling platform 20Lines before serving as CEO of Zooppa. He later co-founded the New York restaurant chain Avocaderia and co-authored a cookbook of the same name.

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CEO Alessandro Biggi holds less than 10% equity in Zooppa

“Pretty much, yeah.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 6:14 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

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Biggi believes Zooppa can reach a $50M to $100M+ valuation

“I think right now there's a huge opportunity for Zupa to grow and to really make it become a big business, let's say in the 50, a hundred million or more value.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 7:17 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

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Zooppa retains a 50% take rate on campaign transaction volume

“No, no, we usually, as I said, we usually keep 50% for ourselves and 50% goes to the grid.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 9:35 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

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Biggi: Zooppa relies on a global network of 400,000 creators

“Basically instead of having our own internal creative department, we rely on technology to engage with a network of about 400,000 creators all around the world.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 1:22 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

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Biggi: Zooppa project sizes range from $10k to over $150k

“When it's about open model, you know, we usually can go anywhere From, let's say, 40 K to a 150 or more. When it's more direct production, you know, you can start as low as 10 K and then of course grows grow up as a project becomes more complex.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 2:47 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

Disclosure

Zooppa is pivoting from a creative contest platform to an agency

“Zupa developed for many years as the contest platform for creatives. And right now, we're really, like, Pivoting, sort of developing, actually, I would say evolving as the market is also requiring us to evolve into an open creative agency.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 4:57 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

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Biggi: Zooppa processed $4M to $5M in transaction volume in 2016

“So I would say it was around four to five million.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 8:03 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

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Zooppa aims to achieve self-sustainability before raising additional capital

“We focus more on on the, on being able to sustain ourselves with our on our own. I think that's definitely my goal for the year. And I think it's totally achievable, totally doable.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 11:57 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

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Zooppa executes 60 to 70 client creative campaigns per year

“Usually we run about 60 to 70 projects per year.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 8:13 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

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Zooppa operates with a team of about 25 people

“We're about 25 people.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 11:40 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

Disclosure

Biggi's previous startup 20Lines raised $1M before expanding to SF

“We started in Italy, and then we raised about a million. We went to San Francisco.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 12:53 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

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HarperCollins' acquisition of Biggi's startup 20Lines was a soft landing

“Yeah, no, no, definitely. It was more of a soft landing.”

Alessandro Biggi Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 13:33 678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in 2016 with CEO Alessandro Biggi

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
678: Creative who needs work? Try Zooppa with $8m Raised and $4m+ In Creative Projects in	Jun 2, 2017	9m

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