How To Successfully Scale A Start Up

Pete WardStuart Griffith

Stuart Griffith did a fireside interview with Pete Ward the co-founder & CEO of WAYN.com (Where Are You Now?) discussing how WAYN became the world’s largest social travel network with over 22 million members worldwide. 

Pete Ward is co-founder & CEO of WAYN.com (Where Are You Now?). With over 22m members worldwide, WAYN is the world’s largest social travel network. WAYN won Website of the Year in 2012 and 2013 for most popular and best community site. WAYN also won Best Social Travel Network at World Travel Awards in 2013 and 2014. Pete was recognised as ‘Top 40 Under 40 in Media’ (Sunday Times) and ‘Top 100 in Technology’ (Telegraph) and a finalist as Male Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 (Investor Allstars). Pete has a passion for entrepreneurship and travel. Funny that.

Pete Ward co founded WAYN (Where Are You Now) in 202 with by Jérome Touze (Co-CEO) and Mike Lines (CTO). 

WAYN claims to house user data for 21.5M users in 193 different countries.In the UK, WAYN has over 2 million members. 50% of traffic is from the top 10 geographies which include India, USA, UK, Spain and Italy. WAYN cites over 22 million monthly visits and has 8 million unique visitors.

 

In this session Pete discusses getting started, growth,  business models, pivoting, advertising and partnerships along the road to scaling your business.