Speaker B worked on both the brand and creator side of influencer marketing, spotting a gap: platforms favor brands because they pay, leaving creators buried in irrelevant pitches. A food blogger gets mattress offers. A vegan gets beef jerky ads. Statusphere flips it, treating creators as members first.
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What elements of your previous experience directly contributed to understanding the problem that you're solving with Statusphere?
Yeah, I think understanding the problem not only as the brand but as the creator, I think, was the biggest differentiator for me. So I think the biggest, like, aha moment was when I was like, all of these platforms are only built for brands. They care about the brand because the brands are the ones paying, or the agency is the one paying. So then the creator experience is just for lack of a better term, just really crappy. I mean, I would get like just spammed with emails. The communication was horrible. I was a food blogger getting pitched mattress companies. My friends were vegan and they were getting pitched beef jerky. And I was like, this is like so strange because I had seen the brand side and I knew the brand side, like they just want to find the right creators and the creators just wanna find the right brand. So I really wanted to create Statusphere being a, like everything we call our creators members, Statusphere members. So we say everything is member first.
