Mark White-Robinson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it was just awesome.
Had that a few times.
Like we do with the branded stuff around all over the place now.
And people are noticing us and saying hello, which is really, really cool.
The best story I think though was about a month after we launched.
And we're up here in Auckland for a bunch of meetings, getting around some of the schemes.
We're sitting in Commercial Bay, down near the waterfront, and just having a rest between meetings by the elevators.
And we're sitting there, and we hear, and we look around, and going up the escalator, this guy's fumbling, and he pulls out his phone, and he opens the app, and he shows it down to us, and he's like,
I love it.
And Ben, one of the co-founders, jumps up and goes, oh, send us a message through the app and we'll throw five bucks into your KiwiSaver.
So he did.
He messaged us.
And the story was he hadn't heard about us, but his father-in-law had come around to him and his partner's place and
And we'd had, like, on the first day we launched, we had a couple of articles, one in the Herald, one in Stuff and things like that.
And he had cut out the article from the Herald, took it round to his daughter's place and stuck it on the fridge.
And he basically said, I'm going to check every day until you two have signed up for this.
And, like, this guy was sceptical.
It's like, don't, I...
Another app.
Don't want another app.