Doug Weiss, co-founder and CEO of Deets, a platform that helps users find the right restaurants and events for them, joins the podcast to discuss his journey to entrepreneurship and his new company. 

His career began in corporate strategy roles at McKinsey and Pepsi. He later transitioned to a Product Growth Manager role at Facebook for the Lead Ads and Offline Conversion Platform. After several position changes within Facebook he eventually became the Head of Creator Commerce at Instagram. He is also an active investor in early stage startups and holds an MBA and MS in Product Design from Stanford, and a BA in International Relations and a BS in Business from UNC.  

This podcast was an opportunity to get insight into how Doug and his cofounder, Paul English, are going about optimizing the restaurant discovery process.   

Try out Deets: https://info.deets.com/ 

Guest: Doug Weiss  

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Topics 

0:00 - Intro 

1:16 - What got him into entrepreneurship?  

8:40 - Building Deets 

23:00 - How does Deets keep the creator and user at the center? 

28:58 - What is his approach to growth?  

37:00 - Wrapup