For this 53rd episode, I had the chance to chat with Amin Makhani, SVP of Growth Strategy at BentoBox, a SaaS solution for restaurants (6k customers worldwide). Amin was also first marketing hire at Yext, the company grew revenue from $5M to $120M and went public during his time.

In this episode, we talked about:

• The state of the restaurant industry with the pandemic
• Marketing to restaurants, the channels, the strategy, the audience targeting
• Marketing to restaurants, the digital and physical marketing
• First marketing hire for Yext (NYSE: YEXT); the company grew revenues from $5M to $120M
• Joining a future billion-dollar startup during the 2008 recession
• The faith and scaling journey of growing a company until you take it public
• Learning management on the go and growing as a leader, what resources and what tactics to adopt.
• Hiring for intellectual curiosity and troubleshooting skills.

Here is Amin's newsletter about financial markets and investment: https://mokhani.substack.com/

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