Alyce takes a 20% to 35% cut from 460 partner merchants
Greg Segall · EP 552: $300k last 12 months To Help Sales People Find Perfect Gifts with CEO Greg Segall · Jan 27, 2017 · at 3:36
Greg Segall, founder and CEO of AI corporate gifting platform Alyce, explains Alyce's monetization model to Nathan Latka.
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“What we've done is we've partnered with about 460 merchants now that cut us a piece of the transaction, because basically we are getting them inside of the corporate gifting budgets, which they have no no way of getting into otherwise. So they cut us anywhere between 20 to 35% of every transaction.”
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