35 min

Jonathan Legge, Co-Founder and CEO at &Open: Over $35 Million Raised to Create the Future of Corporate Gifting Category Visionaries

    • Entrepreneurship

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Jonathan Legge, CEO and Co-Founder of &Open, a corporate gifting platform that's raised over $35 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed:
Jonathan’s unusual background in design, starting an ecommerce business with his brother, and why Brian Chesky is an inspiration
How &Open became Airbnb’s Global Gifting partner
Where corporate gifting goes wrong, and how &Open makes corporate gifting thoughtful again 
Curating products, logistics, and having the patience to stay self-funded for as long as it was strategic
How gifting is really about creating connections and establishing relationships, and how Jonathan plans to “scale thoughtfulness”

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Jonathan Legge, CEO and Co-Founder of &Open, a corporate gifting platform that's raised over $35 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed:
Jonathan’s unusual background in design, starting an ecommerce business with his brother, and why Brian Chesky is an inspiration
How &Open became Airbnb’s Global Gifting partner
Where corporate gifting goes wrong, and how &Open makes corporate gifting thoughtful again 
Curating products, logistics, and having the patience to stay self-funded for as long as it was strategic
How gifting is really about creating connections and establishing relationships, and how Jonathan plans to “scale thoughtfulness”

35 min