SMS marketing for e-commerce

Alex Beller, Postscript

Today’s guest and his co-founder were all rejected from YC with earlier ideas. Eventually they got together and came up with the idea for SMS marketing for Shopify stores.

That idea got them into YC and eventually $40m in funding.

I want to find out how he did it. Alex Beller is the founder of Postscript, SMS marketing for growing Shopify stores.

Alex Beller

Postscript

Alex Beller is the founder of Postscript, SMS marketing for growing Shopify stores.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. One of my listeners and friends is a guy named Devin Meadows, and he’s got an online store and he said, Andrew, you got to check out this thing postscript.

In fact, I want to introduce you to the founder. I love it. It’s helping my business grow. You should go and interview the founder. And so we put out an email to the founder of postscript, which does SMS marketing, uh, for e-commerce Alex Beller. And this has been weeks and weeks and weeks in the making to have him on here.

And I’m so glad to have him on because, um, the business is not just helping Devin, but I went to Shopify to see what their reviews are. It’s just unbelievable positive reviews for this thing. And so I want to understand how he did it and, uh, how we got here. And we could do a thanks to two phenomenal...

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