Has society had enough of 'stuff'? (Dominic Mills from Yuup)

This week Nic and Nat sit down with Dominic Mills, co-founder of Yuup - one of CookiesHQ’s own clients. Yuup is an online marketplace for Bristol-based experiences that launched in September 2020.

The vision for Yuup came from a passionate belief in local communities and the role local people and enterprises have in making them thrive. Dominic had done a lot of reading around the idea of us reaching ‘peak stuff’ as a starting point - that as a society we had accumulated enough stuff, and what we’re actually really interested in doing is going out and experiencing more. But what sets Yuup apart from AirBnB Experiences or Red Letter Days?

Dominic shares the challenges of launching a platform that revolves around bringing people together amidst Covid restrictions, and why Bristol was THE place to start with Yuup. Nic and Nat ask him what he thinks will happen around the drive to shop local once the world opens back up.

Before Yuup,  Dominic had spent 15 years running a successful agency that built products for other people. He describes how he felt about the role reversal, what makes a successful agency/client partnership and his vision for Yuup moving forward.

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