EP36 - Daily Hive Co-Founder & CRO - Manny Bahia
b'Starting a website might be easy, but finding success in today\\u2019s digital publishing world is extremely difficult. Both audiences and advertising dollars tend to be concentrated between a few popular platforms, with the rest of the internet duking it out for the leftovers.\\n\\nBut that didn\\u2019t deter today\\u2019s guest, Manny Bahia, from jumping in.\\n\\nManny is the co-founder and Chief Revenue Office of Daily Hive\\u2014a news, information, and entertainment site servicing millennial audiences through localized editions in select Canadian and US cities.\\n\\nOriginally a computer science major, Manny shifted to business after taking a microeconomics elective in his first year. It was during his time in University that he co-founded the website Vancity Buzz. \\n\\nVancity Buzz would later be renamed Daily Hive as part of national expansion strategy into Toronto and Montreal. Expansion into Calgary and Edmonton followed, and just recently Daily Hive has gone international, adding Portland and Seattle to the family.\\n\\nManny Bahia talks to us about growing up in Vancouver, what he learned about business from delivering pizza, and shares with us the journey from growing Vancity Buzz into Daily Hive.'