The mention of Dan Bilzerian is enough to evoke a range of reactions. To some, he’s an icon of success. To others, he’s a spectacle of excess and recklessness. The self-proclaimed “King of Instagram” isn’t shy about his lavish lifestyle, and with over 33.5 million followers, it’s easy to see why. Nothing about Dan Bilzerian …
Ola Cabs is an Indian ride-hailing company founded in 2010 by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati. The company has its headquarters in Bengaluru and is India’s leading cab service provider. Besides the ride-sharing business, the company also operates in the food delivery, electric scooter, and cloud kitchen businesses. Being the biggest ride-hailing company in India …
Businesses exist to create value for their customers. This value can take many forms, but ultimately, the customer decides what is valuable to them. Establishing high-performance business operations requires understanding how to create, deliver and capture value throughout the service value chain. The concept of the service value chain isn’t new. Michael Porter first introduced …
Zelle, a digital peer-to-peer payment service, doesn’t independently generate revenue or make money. Instead, it makes money by facilitating payments for participating banking institutions. As a strategic product of leading US banks, Zelle supports these institutions by providing a user-friendly digital payment platform, encouraging customer retention, and reducing the likelihood of customers switching to competitors. …
Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops, hosts, and markets Yelp.com and the Yelp mobile app, which publish crowd-sourced reviews about local businesses. The company also runs an online reservation service called Yelp Reservations. True to its mission statement, “Yelp connects people with great local businesses,” …
How does your marketing team view the sales process? If you’re like most businesses, your answer is probably “through the lens of a typical sales funnel.” You know the one: it starts with awareness, moves on to consideration, then decision, and finally, purchase. Most marketing teams primarily focus on generating leads at the top of …
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) is a leading big-data analytics company based in Denver, Colorado. Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, and several other PayPal alumni founded the company in 2003. The inspiration behind Palantir’s business model was PayPal’s fraud recognition system. Ideally, Palantir could use similar software to reduce terror attacks and foster civil liberties. Over …
The story of the Aldi brand is a long and fascinating one. Two brothers, Karl, and Theo Albrecht, inherited their mother’s small grocery store in Essen, Germany, in 1946. After WWII rationing ended, the brothers saw an opportunity to provide affordable food to the German people struggling to make ends meet. They did this by …
Affirm is a financial technology company offering installment loans to consumers at the point of sale. The company started operations in 2012 as part of HVF, a startup studio created by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin. Other Affirm founders include Jeff Kaditz, Nathann Gettings, and Alex Rampell. The company has its headquarters in San Francisco and …
Stitch Fix is a multi-billion dollar e-commerce company that uses a data-driven approach to personal styling and shopping. Katrina Lake, a former Harvard Business School student, founded Stitch Fix in 2011. Initially, the company focused on women’s clothing but later expanded to include men’s, children’s, maternity, and plus-size clothing. The company first became profitable in …
