Скачать или смотреть Polarsteps: using AI to plan, track and relive your adventures

What if you could:
• Reach 18 million users with a travel app, but with no ads, no selling of customer data, and no marketing team
• Create a product so loved that users beg to pay for it
• Step in after the explosive growth and still level it up as CEO

That’s exactly what today’s guest, Clare Jones, has done at Polarsteps, one of Europe’s fastest-growing apps. From COO at what3words to CEO of an app now embedded on a third of Dutch smartphones, Clare knows how to scale culture-first, values-led tech that users actually stick with.

In this episode of The OpenVC Podcast, we explore:
✅ Why Polarsteps has the best user retention in travel tech
✅ How a “no ads, no data sell” business model actually works
✅ The genius behind their viral photo books and AI itineraries
✅ How to scale without breaking the product or the culture
✅ Why Polarsteps only hires people aligned with its manifesto
✅ Clare’s biggest lessons from scaling at what3words (60M+ users)

📌 Polarsteps: https://www.polarsteps.com/
📌 Clare on LinkedIn:   / clare-jones-  

🎙 Hosted by Harrison Faull, co-founder of OpenVC and managing director at OVC Ventures — investing in breakout founders across Europe and beyond.
📌 Harrison’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/harrisonfaull
📌 OVC Ventures: https://www.ovcventures.com

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