DTC POD Meghana Dhar
Blaine Bolus 00:00:06 - 00:00:33
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Blaine Bolus 00:00:33 - 00:00:50
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Blaine Bolus 00:00:50 - 00:01:07
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Meghana Dhar 00:02:05 - 00:03:15
Okay, well, thanks, Blaine and Ramon, for having me. Hey, BTC Pod, super excited to be on. Yes, I'm a tech advisor and investor. I think my area, how I like to summarize it is creators, brands, social, and commerce. Like, those are the things I'm crazy about. I can talk about those things all day, and I think that space is kind of ripe for disruption and some innovation, so I kind of want to be part of that. I worked in big tech my whole life, so I was kind of a big tech girl. I was at Ebay for several years where I really found my love for e commerce, marketplaces, and DTC, in a way. I was in strategy and M A there early in my career and then actually got the cool opportunity to work as an advisor to the CEO on restructuring the business after we spun off PayPal. I was also formerly the head of shopping partnerships at Instagram, so really got to see that go zero to one, and most recently was the global head of partnerships at Snap. So, yeah, lots of war stories, lots of social commerce. So excited to get into it. You guys sweet.
Blaine Bolus 00:03:15 - 00:03:39
And I'd love to go a little back. Let's go back and start with Ebay maybe, and then we can kind of talk through some of the other experience. But I'd love to know a little bit more. Why don't you just set the scene for us? What was the commerce landscape like? What were you working on at Ebay? What were some of the fun initiatives that you guys were taking on from an M A perspective? And maybe what were some of the early learnings in terms of how that started to influence your career?
Meghana Dhar 00:03:39 - 00:04:37
And, you know, I really think Ebay is like the OG e commerce website. Like, they started this whole idea of a marketplace and this idea, know, where supply meets demand, where eyeballs meet supply on the Internet. And I sometimes feel like people don't give them enough credit, like they're OGS, they're ballers. And I think they disrupted the Internet in their time. But really what I learned a lot about is how they maintained that flywheel of demand and supply right? Like how they kept the incentives right, how they got the economy, their micro economy going. And so that was really fun to observe firsthand. At my time, what was important was they were trying to get away from the auction model because it was stifling them. So they were trying to move away from that classic auction model towards more like buy, know, buy immediately, again, making them more competitive with modern Amazon et trying.