Andrea Miele is co-founder and CEO of Beezie, a gamified commerce platform Pete Townsend backed through Techstars in 2024, joins Pete to talk about why the "TCG" label never captured what Beezie actually is, what it took to raise a second round after some of the best-known funds in the space passed on her more than once, and what's next now that Beezie has expanded to Base and Solana.
Connect with Andrea:X: https://x.com/AndreaMYellie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agriffin717/
Learn more about Beezie:Website: https://beezie.com/
X: https://x.com/Beezie
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beeziedotcom/
Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:32 Intro: Andrea Miele and Beezie
1:22 What Beezie is, in plain English
2:07 The Claw and the cold-start problem
3:21 Why the TCG bucket undersells the vision
5:26 The pack rip smell, and trading it for liquidity
7:15 Building trust before asking for money
8:17 Fundraising through thirty no's
10:13 The lead investor who changed everything
12:26 Base, Solana, and what's next
13:41 Where to find Beezie
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