The Retail X Series Podcast
Are you an early stage founder revolutionizing the future of retail? Then you’re in the right place. My name is Sapna Shah and I’m an angel investor investing at the preseed stage in retail tech, ecommerce, marketplaces and consumer. I’m also the founder of Retail X Series, an ecosystem to help early-stage founders in the retail sector. Retail X Series includes events, a YouTube channel, a Slack community, resources for founders, and this podcast. In this podcast, I interview founders, investors and experts in the retail space, and we dig deep into the tactics around key topics that early-stage founders want to hear about. Welcome to the Retail X podcast.
The Retail X Series Podcast
How to Build a Marketplace with Innovation at the Core featuring Trisha Bantigue of Queenly
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Sapna Shah
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Episode 43
Everyone knows that markteplaces are hard to build. And apparel marketplaces are even harder. This episode features Trisha Bantigue, CEO of formalwear marketplace Queenly, who talks about how she built a fashion marketplace using tech innovation to create a better, stickier customer experience, in an apparel sector that has historically had low trust, low frequency and high return rates.
Topics:
- How Trisha’s background made her uniquely qualified to start Queenly
- Why starting with power users was important and why she chose to start with a P2P marketplace
- Why and how adding brands to the marketplace made sense for Queenly
- The various technologies that Queenly has built and incorporated into the app
- Why Trisha believes the tech Queenly built works well for them
- How Queenly started selling their virtual try-on as an API to other brands
- Why your “why” is so important in the startup journey
Music by Eino Toivanen, kongano.com
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