Derek Flanzraich recently raised a $15.5M seed round to build a health & wellness first credit card through his startup, Ness.

Ness is Derek’s second company. His first company, Greatist, got acquired by Healthline — one of the largest health information sites on the internet.

With Ness, Derek is hoping to drive consumers to take more and better healthy actions by rewarding them for health & wellness purchases with points and exclusive perks.

In this episode, Akkshay chats with them about strategies, tactics, and hacks that they’ve used to build their startup. They discuss product, distribution, fundraising, tokenomics, and much more. Here are some of the questions we cover:

• Product: What was your process for building conviction in this problem before pursuing it?
  
• Distribution: What’s your current acquisition strategy?
  
• Fundraising: What is 1 unconventional fundraising tip that you have for founders? Something unique that you think other founders on the pod may not have already said.

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Host: Akkshay Khoslaa

Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen