The Asia Tech Podcast was joined by Andrew Forman, the Founder and CEO at Givz.com.  Givz is the eCommerce marketing platform that grows sales, creates social impact and reduces discount dependency.

Some of the topics that Andrew discussed:

• Attending Harvard Business School and networking in a multi-college environment
• How investment banking helped him learn about starting a business
• The real impact of discounting and customer expectations
• Customers' response to GroupOn
• Data analytics and customer behavior
• How Givz works and the impetus for starting it
• Changing the Givz model and getting the team to come along for the pivot
• The online implementation and how Givz works offline as well
• Creating an infrastructure for brands and charities to work together
• The normalization of QR codes in the United States

Some other titles we considered:

1. The Pandemic Saved the QR Code
2. There Is an Element of Luck
3. Placing Yourself Strategically Is 90% of the Battle
4. It Was the Beginning of the End, I Knew...

This episode was expertly produced by Isabelle Goh.