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Michelle Kennedy

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2019-05-15
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2019-05-15
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  1. “Don't start by the app. Don't start there. Apps are really expensive to build. It's really hard unless you know what you're looking at. You're going to burn through money pretty quickly. There are ways to test what you want to build without having to go all in with the app, right? That's just a fact. And so I think that things that I know, getting visibility on an App Store, really challenging, unless you know how you're going to do that, it's really hard. And that's a key factor in growth. Getting people to understand what you're doing and why you're different and why they should care again, really challenging. Getting investment, you know, we're all very aware that it's hard to get investment as a woman, not impossible, but it is challenging. It has its own challenges.”

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  2. “You know, it is a constant, constant, all consuming story. That means I wake up, I check peanut, and I check my emails. That's before I do anything else, before I go to sleep, sometimes in the middle of the night I do the same. It is completely all consuming. It is not a given that people will want to use your app just because you've created it. It is not a given by any means. There are thousands of apps released on the app store every day. And unless you have a really strong route to market, a really strong brand narrative, You have product market fit, there is absolutely no guarantee that anyone's going to use the product you're creating. And there are so many people that come to me, I've got an idea for an app, and it always makes my heart sink a little bit because I'm always like,”

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  3. “Tough. It's really hard actually. I don't think anyone really talks about how lonely it can be as a founder. Your job is higher. Make sure there's enough cash. Set the vision. But part of all of that is keeping the team excited, upbeat, motivated. And that is great when things are great. And when things are feeling a bit tough Or you're having a tough day, you haven't really got anyone to share that with. Now, it doesn't mean that I can't, you know, share it with Greg or share it with a mentor or other people, but it can be quite challenging sometimes because it's all on you.”

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  4. “I do. My co founder is Greg Golowski. He was the co-founder of Deliveroo. He's from a technical perspective. He's kind of less hands-on these days. We have a bigger team. And it's still me kind of pushing forward on the vision and the kind of the growth because that's the part which is so exciting and so important.”

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  5. “Everything I know about dating and creating romantic relationships and applied it to women to help them find connections on a platonic basis. And then the product has evolved from there.”

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  6. “I had my little boy went back to work. He's gonna be four. He's four and a half. He's going to be five in December, which blows my mind. So I think when I met you, he was a babe. And when I had him, I just felt frustrated by the products that were out there. There was nothing that I felt was relevant to me. And more importantly, I felt it was patronizing and a little bit infantilizing that the products that were out there aimed at women who were mothers just didn't respect the other parts of who she was as a woman. It didn't respect the fact that I was also a businesswoman or also a partner, sister, daughter, whatever it might be. You know, we're so many different things. Motherhood is definitely the best part of who I am, but it's not the only part. And so I wanted to create a product for other women who maybe felt the same. So why me? I took.”

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  7. “I just want you to have an experience of finding someone who's like-minded and to find support. They say it takes a village to raise your child, right? But we don't live in our village anymore. We live everywhere. We move for different reasons. And so it's about finding that support network. If you make one valuable connection, if you get one piece of advice, if you meet your best mate, if you just feel better about the fact that you're up at 2 a.m. and there are thousands of other women doing the same as you, then it's a success for us.”

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  8. “Peanut is an app to connect like-minded women who happen to be mothers, and it's really thinking about how do we solve this issue of women who are entering this massive life stage and life change, and yet there was no product which is modern, cool, feels fresh, and speaks to this entire generation of women who have an expectation that things will be mobile first, that they'll feel like it's for them and not feel like it's for their mum and take a move away from some of the slightly more old school forums and other products out there and really think about creating something for this modern woman who happens to be a mother. And that's peanut.”

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  9. “I started life as a corporate lawyer, I moved into the dating industry, I became deputy CEO at Badoo, had a little boy, decided I needed to do something in the mother space, created Peanut. Peanut launched a year and a half ago, and we have 350,000 mums using it.”

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