Jerne
CEO: Tim Morgan
Website: Jerne
Founding date: 2021
Before Jerne, no end-to-end distribution platform connected the $9 trillion travel and tourism industry with the $100 billion creator economy, consisting of 300 million individuals influencing consumer buying decisions across social media networks, podcasts, blogs, and more.
Today, Jerne is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform helping 5,000 creators and experience providers manage their relationships, navigate their commercial agreements, control and monetize their user generated content assets and track affiliate sales and marketing return on investment.
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Tim Morgan and Ryan McElroy
Strategic goals for 2024
Our main goal at Jerne for 2024 is to multiply our revenue tenfold through scaling creator and brand partnerships alongside the consumers who are influenced by the results of those partnerships.
Lessons learned since founding
Our first lesson at Jerne has been to always obsess over delivering a solution for the primary challenge that our users are facing. Our second lesson has been to repeat our first lesson. Listen, act, repeat.
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