Pod Insights How I Built This with Guy Raz How I Built Resilience: Daniela Corrente of Reel About this episode Reel is a digital savings platform that helps people people make big purchases without racking up credit card debt. CEO and co-founder Daniela Corrente says the company has added new savings plans during the pandemic in response to consumers looking for new ways to buy and save. These conversations are excerpts from our How I Built Resilience series, where Guy talks online with founders and entrepreneurs about how they're navigating turbulent times.
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5:29 Guy Raz? Hey, everyone, and welcome to How I Built This, Resilience Edition from NPR. On these episodes, we're hearing from entrepreneurs and business leaders about how they've been building resilience into their businesses during this very challenging year. And today, we're going to hear from Daniela Corente, CEO and co-founder of Reel. It's a digital platform that makes saving money easier and helps people make big purchases, like furniture, or electronics, or clothing, without taking on credit card debt.
5:58 Speaker 01 Think about this, as a society, we've always been told that shopping is fun, right?
6:02 Guy Raz? Yeah.
6:02 Speaker 01 When you're stressed, you shop. When you wanna have fun, you shop. Savings, it's scary, right? Savings, it's for people that have a lot of money. We haven't been taught to see the potential of our own cash flows. People are driven by emotion, right? You and I, we all like to believe they were rational beings, but when it comes to numbers, a lot of the decisions that we make come from an emotional place and that's really where our real came to life. We're using that behavioral knowledge to bring an experience of savings that's relatable for people.
6:34 Guy Raz? So it's a savings platform, but can you explain how it works?
6:39 Speaker 01 Yeah, of course. So let's say that you want a new microphone.
6:42 Guy Raz? This microphone is amazing. This one, eh, not so much.
6:45 Speaker 01 Great. You know, you want a new microphone. Let's say that it's $300, right? You come to our website and we tell you, you know, if you put $5 today, you can have it in this amount of time. And you play with it, connect your bank account, and we automatically start moving money from your bank account towards your goal. As you're saving, we're sending you a lot of reinforcement. We tell you, "Guys, you're amazing and you're great. You're gonna achieve your goals without going into debt. You can share it with your friends. You can boost that." If there is a deal on the microphone, we notify you. And once you complete saving, all that you have to do is come from your chip in address and we place the order on your behalf. So it's a full circle from the moment that you wanted your microphone to the moment that you're interviewing me with your microphone.
7:26 Guy Raz? And you guys partner with some big name brand businesses like Bloomingdale's and some others. And is that how it works? Like you basically go on your website and you identify products on the website that you need or maybe you don't need, but you just want, and that's, that's what you start to save towards?
7:45 Speaker 01 So look, you can come into a website and start saving for whatever you want. And that's actually connected with the 2020 story that I'm sure we'll get into soon. We also aggregate inventory from thousands of stores. So we surface an aggregator where we, you know, scrape the web and present you with possibilities of items based on what you have like before. And we are starting to do direct partnerships with retailers to be part of their point of purchase. Instead of putting something on a wish list and not taking action, like to actually start saving for things as they are shopping.
8:17 Guy Raz? Danielle, how did you come up with the idea?
8:20 Speaker 01 It was born of a personal fascination with consumer finance. I was the first one in my family to move to the States. I moved here for college. And, you know, in the early 2000s, if you had a pulse, you got a credit card. And that was the way that it was, right? We didn't know any better. I got my credit card. It was a $2,000 credit card. I loved it. I thought I was $2,000 richer.
8:42 Guy Raz? Yeah.
8:43 Speaker 01 I even, I mean, funny side story, I even sponsored a child. Right? I thought I had so much money that I went to unicef.com and sponsored a child for $18 a month. I was just like, I...
8:55 Guy Raz? Yeah, got $2,000 limit.
8:57 Speaker 01 Of course, I had no idea what it was, right? And then really quickly understood what the high interest that I had meant. Right? What it is to pay late. And became fascinated with financial psychology and why as humans, we make the decisions that we make? Because we associate happiness with a certain lifestyle and to have that lifestyle is connected with money. That was a fascination that I had for years, but I didn't do anything with it until, you know, a couple of years ago. And that came out of just working in advertising in New York. A client brief that was now my co-founder was working on.
9:37 Speaker 01 And, you know, we were chatting one day and he told me, hey, do you actually know that millennials are avoiding credit card? And obviously this is 14 years after my $2,000 fiasco. And I'm like, wait, hold on. What? What happened? What happened in these years that I haven't been paying attention to consumer finance? And I put up a SurveyMonkey and sent questions. As a marketer, I'm curious, not with the intention of starting a company, just with the intention of understanding the market. And, you know, but really fascinating answers about people telling me like, look, I don't know how to save. I want to save, but it seems too complicated.
10:21 Speaker 01 It seems too stressful. With the years of just selling products to consumers, more on the retail side, I started really thinking about how can we connect this feeling of excitement with savings? And everything started rippling from there. I had to go to South by Southwest. For work and my co-founder too. And we were talking about this idea. And I was asking every single friend at the time, how are you paying for things? What's going on? What has changed? And I remember vividly just having dinner and telling my co-founder, hey, if we're going to South by Southwest, there are a lot of big people there.
11:01 Speaker 01 I can put a square page website and print business cards and we can go and talk about this and see if people would like it. And that's how I got my first investor meeting.
11:13 Guy Raz? When you started to meet with investors and pitch the idea, as every person who's been on How I Built This has described, I'm sure you got some pushback. I'm sure people are saying, well, why would somebody do that and not just go to a, an interest bank account? Or why would somebody, you know, do that and not do layaway? Or why wouldn't somebody just get a low interest credit card? Right? I mean, what kind of pushback did you get?
11:33 Speaker 01 You know, the title of this show has the word resilience. And I think every single founder that you've interviewed, fundraising, it's always a full on story on itself, right? Because you get no's more times than you get yes. But you only need a handful of yes in order to change the trajectory of your story. And, you know, when, especially when it's a product that it's not relatable necessarily to investors, right? Because they don't need to set money aside for a pair of AirPods. Because they don't need to set money aside for the new microphone or, or the new computer. So data was really important in this journey that has been fundraising, right? Proving that, hey, there is a need in the market, right?
12:17 Speaker 01 Proving that the customer that we're after is a customer that can spend and can spend highly. So we got a lot of pushback as far as questions of understanding consumer behavior. And that's actually what I'm very passionate about. It was very fun and it keeps being very fun to. Evolve the story over time with the learning that we're having, not only from the hypothesis that we had originally, but for our current customers.
12:44 Guy Raz? I know you raised, I think about a million and a half dollars, right? Is that right?
12:48 Speaker 01 No, we raised close to five.
12:50 Guy Raz? Five? Oh, my gosh. I'm
12:51 Speaker 01 Yes, yes, yes.
12:53 Guy Raz? That was was getting that initial funding. Was that really hard?
12:59 Speaker 01 Yes. You know, I come from a family of entrepreneurs. So this mentality of you adapt and you learn and you get feedback and you figure out a way to play on that feedback to make things happen have been really influential on the way that I've evolved the company and that I have gone about every fundraising round. But I do remember, right, when at the beginning it was like, oh, my goodness, if we get ten thousand dollars, this is all that we can do. And now it's just like ten thousand dollars. No, we need to keep growing, right? It was actually the first money that we got came from outside of our own money, of course, right? Of savings, freelancing, 401Ks, and just putting our own money and sweat into the business.
13:45 Speaker 01 It came from an accelerator and we went through different accelerators and there was one, which is Mokr, that I really, really like because of the way that they structure their investments. And I remember going to that meeting with one of the managing partners and sitting down and I'm like, hey, we're talking with all of all these other accelerators and this is why I like this one. And if you're gonna make a decision, we need to work into this pretty fast because we have all these other conversations. But getting to that level of confidence took time, right? But it was pretty much on the face and they believed in us and they were our first check. And it just catapulted growth for us, but it took a while. It wasn't
14:27 Speaker 01 It wasn't something that it took two days, three days, not even a couple of, it took months. Because at the beginning, and I'm sure a lot of entrepreneurs listening to this, at the beginning, it's sort of like the chicken and the egg question, right? It's like, well, this is the idea that you have. Show me proof that the market wants that. But in order to show you proof that the market wants it at scale, there needs to be some level of investment. You're playing with that data in order to deliver a high-quality story that they can buy into.
14:55 Guy Raz? I mean, we live in, as you know, because I should mention, you were born and raised in Venezuela, right?
15:00 Speaker 01 Yeah.
15:00 Guy Raz? And the United States is like, people are, you know, constantly in debt, and I don't even know what the numbers are, it's insane, and people have multiple credit cards. On our show, we interview founders who max out their credit cards, start their businesses, right? But the idea behind this is to prevent that, is to essentially, I guess, to discourage people from just putting things on credit cards when they don't have the cash to pay for it.
15:22 Speaker 01 There is debt, and there is unnecessary debt. And we are highly focused on the debt that is unnecessary, right? Things that you might not need right away. And why are you going to get into debt for it? Like, I'll give you an example. A lot of our users are first-time moms. And when you're a first-time mom, and you're gonna eat a stroller, you don't need it for another 10 months, nine months. Why are you gonna rack up your debt to go for that? Right? When you need a new computer, or outdoor furniture, or even a trip, we have a lot of customers that have started saving for a trip. Why don't you start putting a little bit of money aside every day? So then by the time that you get there, you can achieve your goal without having to go into that. I think, you know, as a society, the biggest thing is
16:03 Speaker 01 that people do not understand the implications that unnecessary debt has in the long term. But that has changed tremendously after, you know, after 2008. And now we're seeing a lot of that, too. Every, every financial downturn brings new behavior.
16:20 Guy Raz? When we come back in just a moment, more of my conversation with Daniela Corrente, and how adding a service fee to her free platform actually increased users. Stay with us. I'm Guy Raz, and you're listening to How I Built This, Resilience Edition from NPR.
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18:27 Guy Raz? Hey, welcome back to How I Built This, Resilience Edition. And I'm talking with Daniela Corrente, CEO and co-founder of Reel. When Reel initially launched, it was a free service. But Daniela found herself fielding lots of questions from skeptical customers about how the company made money.
18:45 Speaker 01 When we started the product, we were a free product. And the reason I'm bringing this up because I think like pricing psychology is fascinating. And you know, we were a new company and people would call us, email us, like, why are you free? Why are you free? Where's the catch? And this is my new Cambridge Analytica era, right?
19:03 Guy Raz? Yeah.
19:03 Speaker 01 What are you doing? And so me and my co-founder, we sat down and we're like, okay, look, we're spending a lot of time responding to people and explaining how we make money. And talking to our investors, they were like, hey, why don't you charge? And this is not what we want for our product. So we actually were like, let's A B test this. And we did. And we saw higher conversion when we started charging a fee to use the platform, which was fascinating.
19:32 Guy Raz? Wow.
19:32 Speaker 01 So we started charging a fee to use a platform, saw higher conversion, saw higher trust, which makes perfect sense because we live in the era of Airbnb and DoorDash, right? And people used to service fees. So right now, we're currently A B testing, removing that fee again, because we want to add value for customers over time. And that's something that goes against the belief that we have as a company. We believe that this should be a free product for customers. But it definitely adds everything while building a company. It's been a learning curve.
20:05 Guy Raz? Right. How does Reel make money? What's your revenue model?
20:09 Speaker 01 Yeah, so we monetize a couple of different ways. So we monetize obviously on the money that we're holding on behalf of the users, right? And then we also monetize through partnerships with retailers because we're driving traffic towards their website, right? We're driving conversion and so we get paid for that.
20:26 Guy Raz? Daniela, let's talk about 2020. This year has been unlike any year in living memory, obviously.
20:35 Guy Raz? For some sectors, it's been really challenging, incredibly challenging, the restaurant industry and travel and leisure, the service industry, even retail apparel. It's been really tough. And obviously, for small businesses. How have you guys been doing this year? I know you've got a team of about 20 people. So presumably, you're working in a distributed way. I mean, what are you seeing? What are, I mean, presumably, people can save more money because they're not traveling. They're not going to restaurants, for example.
21:05 Speaker 01 Yes, so there are a couple of things there, right? 2020 has definitely been a very interesting year. I think as entrepreneurs, if every year we grow at a 5X because of everything that we learned, this year it's been like a 20X exponential growth. It's not only running your business, but setting new structures for your team to work remotely too, right? For us, because it's saved Dubai, actually, everything that has happened with COVID has accelerated this behavior of people to look for alternatives, right? If you look into data, people are saving now more than ever. And of course, they're saving more because they're not going out. But the underlying there, it's the behavior over time.
21:49 Speaker 01 And it happened after 2008. You could see how millennials had less credit cards than the previous generation because they saw what their parents went through. Now, with everything that's happening with COVID, we're seeing that people are realizing that living paycheck to paycheck is not the way to go. But at the same time, it's the era of Instagrams and TikToks. And, you know, there is a lifestyle that you want to achieve. So finding that balance, it's something that is playing very nicely in our advance because of the kind of product that we're putting in the market. So we've actually seen a tremendous amount of growth this year, month over month, as far as dollars transacted.
22:29 Speaker 01 And it's also as a result of us expanding into multiple verticals. We didn't have to necessarily pivot as a company, but accelerate our offerings, right? When the year started, we were offering perhaps two, three verticals. And then... When this happened in March, we sat down as a team and we said like, hey, look, you know, most of our people are saving for fashion and furniture and things that, you know, might not be needed right now. We need to expand. So if they want to save for for electronics, if they want to save for tech, if they want to save for other things, we need to offer that. And we cannot do it in Q3 or Q4. We need to do it in early
23:11 Speaker 01 Q2. How are we going to do this as a team? And so it was a period of being very hands-on, down to business, right, developing sort of alternatives for people to save and it has paid off over time.
23:24 Guy Raz? I want to jump to a question we got from Sandeep via LinkedIn. Sandeep asks, have you considered offering options for people to save to donate to charity?
23:35 Speaker 01 Actually, great question because we just did that last week. People can save for charities that they want to. And that came out honestly from a partnership with some influencers where they asked us, hey, look, I want to share these with my following, but I want to make sure that we also have the opportunity to save for these charities. And we opened that possibility. So absolutely, you can do that.
23:59 Guy Raz? Here's another question from Sebastian. Sebastian asks, what do you say to people who who ask, you know, why wouldn't I just open up a savings account instead of using real? Like, he asks, what does real offer that makes it a more viable offering?
24:13 Speaker 01 Yeah. So look, savings accounts have been there for ages and ages, right? You can go to any banking institution and just create a savings account and put a picture of whatever you want. The reality is that the younger generation doesn't only have friction with certain financial institutions over time, but it's looking for ways to sort of optimize their their experiences, right? When you if you put money on a savings account, you have to track it. You have to track the product that you're saving for, right? You have to make sure that there is enough money on your account every time you make the transfer. If you come to us, We facilitate all that for you, right? If you come to us, you tell us what you want and we have a team that looks for sales for you.
24:56 Speaker 01 It's very easy for you to share these with your friends. It's very easy for you, Sebastian, if you make an extra 50 bucks this weekend to put it towards your goal, right? And there is also the aspect of the constant transparency on this is what you have, this is where you're heading. If you don't have enough money in your bank, we will not make a transaction. So there is a lot of advantages of using us as a service because it's not only that we're helping you save, we're taking you through that journey to make sure you achieve your goal.
25:24 Guy Raz? It's interesting because, you know, services like Betterment or Wealthfront, these sort of robo-advisors, they have a similar model which is goal-oriented. Like you've got different buckets where you could save for college or new home or whatever it is. Do you think that goal-oriented saving is the new model for younger consumers?
25:44 Speaker 01 Yeah, think about it, right? Like as humans, we think about the lifestyle that we want to have and money is the means to an end, right? When you talk about your trip next year with your friends, you're thinking of the experiences that you're going to have, not the perhaps the thousand dollars that you need to set aside to get towards that trip, right? So definitely understanding that the majority of consumers, there is perhaps a, you know, 5% of customers that feel very comfortable connecting a bank account, feel very comfortable with numbers, right? And then they can go and set up a savings account with a bank or a savings account with a product that is very numbers-driven. Then if you're talking about masses, right? Masses are used to being targeted with the lifestyle, right?
26:29 Speaker 01 But not on how you achieve that lifestyle. And so definitely goal-oriented is the way to go when it comes to savings because it aligns with the reality of a digital world where we're consuming the lifestyle that we want 24/7 in our devices.
26:46 Guy Raz? You mentioned how you responded to consumer demand by creating new verticals for new categories of products.
26:53 Guy Raz? Because obviously, people have been saving more this year. What has been the financial impact of the pandemic on your business? Has it? Have you seen a drop off? Have you seen an increase in revenue? What have you seen so far?
27:06 Speaker 01 So, look, we saw a big increase on dollars transacted. And the reason why that's very interesting to us is because by expanding to our verticals, we started also getting more of the share of wallet from the customers that we also already had. So not only attracting new customer base, but also telling our customers, hey, you know, now you can start saving for your Christmas budget with us. Not only, you know, the TV or not only the computers. So we started seeing more of a 360 into the life of our customer. As far as purchases, what was very interesting for us in March, which was something that made us sort of rethink the way that we see the business
27:49 Speaker 01 in certain ways, is that when COVID happened, we saw people that started, that kept saving, but they didn't want to place the orders right away. And that was fascinating to us because we saw the savings transacted kept the same. And then, on the contrary, they increased tremendously. Like, November was 24% higher than the previous month. Right? So it's increasing at a very rapid pace. However, the sales, people are like, you know what? Actually, instead of placing that order of the shoes, can I transfer these to a computer? It's going to take me a little bit longer to get there, but I want to save for those things. Can I transfer these to furniture? Furniture and electronics was something that increased tremendously on the platform,
28:34 Speaker 01 as well as travel, because obviously it's new, right? So, but we saw that behavior of people moving money around more than ever. In fact, over 20% of the items that people save for, they transfer in between items because there is this element of gamification on your savings that has resonated really good with our demographic.
28:54 Guy Raz? We have a couple of minutes left, and I want to get to at least one more question from our listeners. This one is from Robin Davies by Facebook. Robin asks, what's been the biggest driver of awareness for Reel? What are you, how are you reaching new customers? How are you finding, you know, new people to use your service? Because that's the most expensive part of a startup is right, is user acquisition. In a time when we're all kind of stuck at home and everyone's now using digital marketing, how are you reaching customers?
29:23 Speaker 01 So there are a couple of different ways. I think one thing that I would put out there for every entrepreneur, it's think about organic loops. How can you leverage your own customers to spread the word to others? So how do you leverage the fact that they like your brand so that they can tell others and begin having that ripple effect? So we've captured customers different ways. Obviously, because of the nature of our savings platform, we promote our product through Instagram, right? We promote our product through Facebook, to places where people are looking for aspiration. In fact, we have a customer, this is great, like one of her reviews, she calls us her actionable Pinterest. She's like, in Pinterest, I put things on my board.
30:06 Speaker 01 With you guys, I'm actually putting money towards what I want, which I love that. And then besides paid, obviously, our own channels, email, it's a great source of conversion for us, and then all of these organic loops. And then as we look into 2021 and expanding into distribution channels, we have a couple of really great partnerships that are coming into play. I cannot say now, but then we'll start being more at the point of purchase and that unlocks a different distribution channel for us.
30:35 Guy Raz? That's an excerpt from my live conversation with Daniela Corente, CEO and co-founder of Reel. To see our full live interview, you can go to facebook.com/HowIBuiltThis. And if you want to see all of our past live interviews, you can also find them there or at youtube.com/NPR. If you want to find out how to join us live for the How I Built This Resilience series, or you want to find out how to join other virtual NPR events, you can go to nprpresents.org. This episode was produced by Liz Metzger with help from Farah Safari, J.C. Howard, Bruce Grant, Al Mannion, Gianna Capadona, John Isabella, Julia Carney, Neva Grant, and Jeff Rogers. Thanks for listening, stay safe, and I'll see you back here in a few days.
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