Afterpay is one of the biggest tech success stories of the decade - but do you know how a couple of young Kiwi entrepreneurs helped propel it into the $14 billion venture it is today?

Dovetail is a full-service product development agency that specializes in building digital products that scale. They lead consumer product development at Afterpay and over the past three years have helped Afterpay grow into a global payments leader. The web and mobile products that Dovetail designs, builds and maintains for Afterpay now serve over 7 million customers every month in four international markets.

This webinar will be moderated by Cheryl and joined by Nick as he tells the story of how they helped transform Afterpay into the global juggernaut that it is today as well as revealing the lessons learned from their rapid growth and success.

During this event, we will cover the following:

How the experience of selling a VC-backed company lead Nick to start Dovetail
How Afterpay partnered with Dovetail to build the fastest-growing public company in Australian history
Strategies for growth
When and when not to partner or outsource
Dovetail’s plans to help build and invest in more fast-growing technology companies

Speaker

Nick Frandsen - Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Moderator

Cheryl Mack - National Head of Community

BIOS

About Nick Frandsen
Nick Frandsen is one of the co-founders and managing partners at Dovetail, a product development agency that has a proven track record for turning ideas into commercially successful digital products that millions of people love to use. Prior to founding Dovetail, Nick was the co-founder and CTO of 1-Night, a VC backed ticketing and events company, and led the engineering team that grew the platform to handle millions of transactions. 1-Night was eventually acquired by TicketDirect, New Zealand’s largest ticketing company, after which Nick spent a few years in his home country of Denmark consulting to a range of companies such as Thomson Reuters and Geico.

About Cheryl Mack
Cheryl is the National Head of Community & Comms at Stone & Chalk, an Impact Network catalysing commercial success for Founders in emerging tech sectors. Prior to this, she was the CEO of StartCon, which she built from the ground up into an international events & entertainment company. She hosted the largest startup event in Australia, with 4000+ attendees and speakers from tech companies like Uber, Pinterest, SurveyMonkey. She also hosted the largest pitch competition in APAC with events in 15 cities and a $1M prize. Through this, she has helped over 1000 startups secure funding, customers, or partners.

If you are unable to make it, please still register and we will be sure to send you the recording. We hope you can make it!

Warm regards,

Stone & Chalk