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Bimble’s Francesca Howland and Julia Mallaby: “We launched a travel startup in Covid”

2022/4/15
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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Francesca Howland and Julia Mallaby, co-founders of Bimble, to talk about what they did before launching their travel startup (3:50), when they decided to team up (8:10), starting a company mid-career (10:20), raising money (15:05), launching the app (18:35), their worst day (19:40), setting up their tech team in Ukraine (22:20), building up a social network (28:35), coming up with the name (32:15), and influencer marketing (33:00). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy) for more information.