Bounty
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Bounty was a Los Angeles-based startup building tools to help everyday TikTok creators earn money from brand reviews and recommendations. Through a Shopify app and its website, creators could earn cash back for engagement: they bought an approved product from a partner brand, posted a video review to TikTok with the brand tagged and #bounty in the caption, and got paid once Bounty detected the post. The service launched in beta in 2022 with a queue of over 750 brands and 30 launch partners including Jones Road Beauty, BlendJet, Olipop and Doe Lashes. It raised a $4.7-5 million seed round in August 2022 led by M13, with Sugar Capital and Interlace Ventures participating, bringing total funding to $6.777 million.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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