Ben Lipschitz: Selling Technology to Old School Industries

Host Shahin Hoda chats with Ben Lipschitz, Managing Director at FoodByUs about how to sell and market technology products and solutions into industries that are considered traditional and have a low level of technology adoption.  Ben is co-founder and Managing Director of FoodByUs, an online marketplace that connects restaurants, cafes and caterers with hundreds of wholesale food suppliers. The overall business has increased 600% in annual revenue since 2019. Ben’s expertise in the business focuses on sales and marketing and in the past twelve months, he has overseen the growth of the team by 50% and helped deliver an ongoing result of 30% MoM revenue growth. Alongside this, he has been instrumental in securing investment from global marketplace investors FJ Labs and Macquarie Capital, including an AU$10M Series A funding round in November 2021. Join the Slack channel: www.growthcolony.org/slack