Morrow - June letter
Quick-hitter update letter for June as we move into an important “heads-down” mode over the coming months. With that, let’s dive in…
Company updates —
1) The Morrow team grows
This month Morrow welcomed not one, but two new faces to our camp. Despite entering the intern recruiting game late in the 9th inning, we lucked out and have two interns joining Morrow this summer. Both are Stanford students with a focus on product. They are terrific. To quickly introduce them both:
Ben Early
Noah Williams
Both of these guys have brought a great spark of energy and leverage, which has been well received. We’ve had the added benefit of working in person from our summer WeWork HQ in San Mateo. For the summer, Noah and Ben will be teaming up and have been tasked with scaling up the Beta Program user base. In a span of just a few weeks, they’ve ramped up and have already made great headway in moving things forward.
Areas of focus —
1) Recruiting in process - Founding team
Hiring the founding team is the top Morrow priority. If you’re looking for ways to help, you found it! The leading approach has been to source candidates through existing network (i.e. friends of Morrow like you), which typically requires some lead time for outreach, but has paid dividends as some terrific candidates are beginning to flow through across the positions we’re hiring for. Those roles are:
An easy way to reach people is to send around the blurb below. Also feel free to connect me (sammy@usemorrow.com) directly with anyone who might be a good match.
About Morrow --
Morrow is a stealth consumer fintech company helping everyday, pre-retiree Americans access personalized retirement navigation. Retirement advice has largely been reserved for the affluent. Technology has cracked the door to change that. Morrow brings financial services to a new target population (i.e. middle-income pre-retiree) previously left in the dark. We're hiring our founding team.
Our investors include 8VC, co-founder of Coatue, and Larry Fitzgerald (NFL). More updates can be found in our monthly update library.
Founding team - open roles --
Head of Engineering
Product Design Lead
Operations Lead
2) Beta Program ramps up
Building off early successes with initial Beta Program participants, we’ll be significantly increasing the user base over the summer months. Doing so allows us to run a low-overhead, DTC (direct-to-consumer) version of our service, and demonstrate value with a meaningful sample size. It also is plays directly into the B2C portion of the B2B2C distribution model that allows anyone to access Morrow services.
With added leverage from Ben and Noah, and a growing team of Retirement Navigators, we’re in for a busy few months that ought to produce a wealth of information and proof points.
As always, appreciate your support and wishing you a happy 4th of July.
— Sammy