How Start-up Zola is Redefining the Wedding Experience
This time of year is filled with holiday shopping, family, and engagements! In fact, 45% of the couples who use Zola being planning their wedding between Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day. Zola, the wedding registry start-up, is looking to shake up the entire wedding experience.
Zola now has a tool to build your own wedding website, a unique registry, and more. Zola has now helped 500,000 couples, and has raised over $40 million from VC firms.
Shan-Lyn Ma, CEO and co-founder of Zola joins Cheddar to explain how they have built their business and brand. When asked what are the weirdest things couples have registered for, she said that many couples love the game, "Cards Against Humanity," and one couple once registered for a lifetime supply of avocados.
Fintech company CurrencyWorks partnered with Enderby Entertainment on a new platform called Vuele featuring the actor Anthony Hopkins in a film called “Zero Contact.” But it won't be coming to theaters or streaming — it's an NFT. Cameron Chell, founder and chairman of CurrencyWorks and co-head of Vuele, joined Cheddar’s Closing Bell to provide some insight into how it all works. Chell described Vuele as the first-ever direct-to-consumer film viewing platform that incorporates NFT tech making the movie a digital collectible, not for mass-market viewing.