DTC POD Pontus Karlsson, Off Script: The Future of Creators, Brands, & Marketplaces
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What's up, DTC Pod? Today we're joined by Pontus Carlson, who is the co founder and CEO of Offscript. So, Pontus, I'll let you kick us off. Why don't you tell us a little bit about your background and what you guys are up to at Offscript?
Pontus Karlsson 00:01:02 - 00:01:56
Yeah, of course. Hey, everyone. So my name is Pontus. I'm the cofounder and CEO of a company called Offscript. We are an ecommerce solution that helps creators, communities and curators to build their own curated marketplaces. You can think of it as a platform with two parts. On one end, it's a drag and drop ecommerce builder that lets you set up a multi brand marketplace, and on the other side, it's a marketplace connector that allows for brands on most of the main ecommerce platforms to connect in just a few minutes. We've been building this company, depending on how you look at it, for between one to three years. And we have our first kind of institutional funding now, this last spring. So we are pretty early stage company. We have a few hundred brands signed up on a platform today that creators and curators can sell from and working very tight with our users right now to develop our product. Yeah.
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And what is the reason? One of the reasons we're super excited to be able to have you on the show is just to because you've had the experience of A, working with all these different brands, and B, working with all these different creators. So you guys really find yourself at this intersection of creators and commerce. And I think you guys have a really unique take on it. So, at a high level, I just love to kind of get into what some of those learnings have been. What kind of your thesis is as you've been building, like, what you're seeing as more and more creators want to interact with more brands? How do they sell products through you guys? What's your general thesis on where creators meet commerce and how are you guys building to support that with Offscript?