EP011 - Sebastien Polis - Fast-Scaling Experimentation at FinTech Dojo
06/15/22 • 59 min
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Sebastien Polis is the Experimentation Lead at Dojo. Dojo is a UK based Fin Tech company that provides payment services to Small and Medium businesses.
Dojo is a sub-brand of Paymentsense, one of Europe’s fastest growing Fin Tech companies, handling more than $12B worth of sales each year, and processing more than 250M transactions annually. Dojo supplies over 100,000 small businesses in the UK and Ireland, generating revenues over $300M.
Prior to Dojo, Sebastien worked in as a Senior Analyst at Healthily, a health tech startup focused on providing triage advice to customers. He was also Data Scientist at DAZN a sports streaming service that provides fans access to live events around the world on demand.
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Sebastien Polis is the Experimentation Lead at Dojo. Dojo is a UK based Fin Tech company that provides payment services to Small and Medium businesses.
Dojo is a sub-brand of Paymentsense, one of Europe’s fastest growing Fin Tech companies, handling more than $12B worth of sales each year, and processing more than 250M transactions annually. Dojo supplies over 100,000 small businesses in the UK and Ireland, generating revenues over $300M.
Prior to Dojo, Sebastien worked in as a Senior Analyst at Healthily, a health tech startup focused on providing triage advice to customers. He was also Data Scientist at DAZN a sports streaming service that provides fans access to live events around the world on demand.
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Want more? Head to the First Principles website for the episode transcript, resources and reading lists - https://www.firstprinciples.ventures/ep011-sebastien-polis-experimentation-in-fintech-dojo
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EP010 - Rohan Katyal - Yelp: A Story Of Building An Experimentation Program
Rohan Katyal was the Senior PM, Experimentation at Yelp. He shares his personal story of building and growing the experimentation program from ground up at Yelp. Rohan’s approach to democratising experimentation is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.
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Rohan is a Product Manager at Facebook (Meta) working in the New Product Experimentation (NPE) team with a focus on helping creators monetise.
Before working in Facebook’s NPE team, he led growth for Messaging Monetisation on Messenger and Instagram. He also led growth of Click to WhatsApp ads to over 1M monthly advertisers.
Previously, Rohan was a PM at Yelp where he grew "Request-A-Quote" by 25% leading to more than $500M in services revenue. He was also responsible for building and scaling the Yelp experimentation program.
Prior to Yelp, Rohan was a part of the new products team at Yahoo!. He also co-founded and spearheaded a 16 people non-profit called FindAWay focused on equitable access to education.
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EP012 - Vishal Kapoor - Marketplace Experimentation: Zero to One (Part 1)
Vishal Kapoor is the Director of Product at Shipt. Vishal has built, launched, and scaled next-generation consumer products that have generated billions in revenue at Zynga, Lyft and Shipt. In this episode, he provides a practical masterclass on Marketplace Experimentation.
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Vishal Kapoor is Director of Product at Shipt. Shipt, owned by Target Corporation, is a marketplace that facilitates delivery of groceries, home products and electronics. With more than 300,000 Shipt shoppers delivering same-day customer orders across the United States, Shipt was recently valued at $15B, with revenues of more than $1B per annum.
He is a highly experienced senior product leader, with deep expertise spanning Marketplaces, Transportation, Advertising, Search, Messaging, Gaming and Retail Industries.
Prior to Shipt, he was Lead Product Manager, Marketplace Pricing and Intelligence at Lyft and led growth of Words With Friends at Zynga. Vishal has also held roles at Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo focussed on Advertising and Platforms.
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