{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"UKTN | The Podcast","title":"Double unicorn, scaling America & everything in-between - Philip Belamant, CEO & Co-founder of Zilch","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/1c3a2f7f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2856,"description":"Philip Belamant, CEO and co-founder of Zilch, is our final guest of the season. Zilch is a buy now, pay later platform that hit double unicorn status by being the fastest growing company out of Europe and the UK. Belamant talks at length on Zilch taking on the American market with a preregistration of over 150,000 customers. He gets into the extraordinary growth they have experienced increasing from 20,000 to 2.2 million customers in just 18 months. Belamant gets honest about losing out on funding at the beginning of the pandemic and the difficult decisions they faced in deciding between onboarding new customers versus delivering a quality service to existing customers. \r\n\r\nZilch has raised $339.3M in funding to date and are currently valued at more than $2bn.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/aVsXogrCh2DJ4KkFDRaL2YARce6nKDgq3kHd5Tc4YjE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YTE1/MDljZjcxZTNkZjdi/ODc4NGFkMmQ3Y2Iy/YjFkOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}