Category Visionaries

Jonathan Legge, Co-Founder and CEO at &Open: Over $35 Million Raised to Create the Future of Corporate Gifting

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Jonathan Legge, CEO and Co-Founder of &Open, a corporate gifting platform that's raised over $35 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Jonathan’s unusual background in design, starting an ecommerce business with his brother, and why Brian Chesky is an inspiration How &Open became Airbnb’s Global Gifting partner Where corporate gifting goes wrong, and how &Open makes corporate gifting thoughtful again Curating products, logistics, and having the patience to stay self-funded for as long as it was strategic How gifting is really about creating connections and establishing relationships, and how Jonathan plans to “scale thoughtfulness”

Broadcast on:: 10 Oct 2023

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Jonathan Legge, CEO and Co-Founder of &Open, a corporate gifting platform that's raised over $35 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed:

Jonathan’s unusual background in design, starting an ecommerce business with his brother, and why Brian Chesky is an inspiration
How &Open became Airbnb’s Global Gifting partner
Where corporate gifting goes wrong, and how &Open makes corporate gifting thoughtful again
Curating products, logistics, and having the patience to stay self-funded for as long as it was strategic
How gifting is really about creating connections and establishing relationships, and how Jonathan plans to “scale thoughtfulness”