Ever wondered who is behind the mission to enable people to control and be rewarded for their data? 🚀 

Meet Jake, our Partnerships Manager. He’s responsible for all the rewards you can see on the Gener8 marketplace – from auctions and mystery boxes 🎁 to exclusive offers, gift cards, charities and product drops 🎉.

🤔 As Gener8’s Partnerships Manager, what do you get up to?

A lot of the time I’m reaching out to different companies, to get them involved and onto the marketplace – whether that’s for an exclusive offer, gift cards, or giveaways!

I also plan how to spend the budget each month, depending on what gift cards we have, which brands we’ve partnered with for exclusive offers and what tech products we’re going to drop. Then, I’ll usually plan any auctions, mystery boxes, or other giveaways and upload them so they’re ready to go 🚀.

✊ What drew you to Gener8?

I wanted to join a company that was in its early stages and that I could help shape.  In the past, I’d worked on a rewards scheme but this time I wanted to join a company where the main focus was rewarding people, rather than just a side product. It’s great to be involved in helping to build something that will be a core part of the product. It’s still early days but hopefully, I can build with it and help to launch Gener8 in different markets.

✨ What has been your biggest accomplishment since joining Gener8?

I think the biggest accomplishment has been changing the strategy for the marketplace based on user feedback. Things like changing the brands that we have on there, changing the product drops, and adding gamification through our auctions and mystery boxes!  Through this, we’ve managed to bring more engagement to the marketplace and given users more to spend their points on.

🛍 In your opinion, what’s the best thing you’ve seen redeemed on the Gener8 marketplace?

We’ve had quite a lot of experiences on the marketplace that were cool. The helicopter ride for two, tickets to the West End, cocktail masterclasses – loads! I also liked the Player’s Choice auctions we had where if you won, you could choose any video game you wanted. It was really popular and everyone got the video game that they wanted 🎮. 

🎗️ Every month, you select charities to feature on the Gener8 marketplace. Do you have any personal faves that have made it onto ‘Support a Cause’?

We did six charities in December!  I can’t pick a favourite but that month, there were three from givewell.org – a nonprofit that rank charities based on maximum effectiveness (in terms of lives saved, lives improved, etc.) per dollar spent. They were the top three charities, so every 💰 that we donated had the maximum impact.

🎯 What’s your goal for the Gener8 Marketplace?

I want to make the marketplace an engaging experience that incentivises people to use Gener8 and for them to feel rewarded for their data. We don’t want to just become another voucher code website that you can find anywhere else on the internet.  We want it to be a place where you can find unique deals and actually feel rewarded!

🙌 Tell us a fun fact about yourself.

I once beat David Beckham in a go-kart race 🏎

🙌 What would you recommend everyone ticks off their bucket list?

🍳 Learn how to cook

🌎 Visit another continent

🏄 Learn how to surf

🎤 Sit in the front row of a stand-up comedy gig

✨ If you could host a dinner with anyone in the world, which 3 guests would you pick?

Christopher Hitchens,  Naval Ravikant and David Bowie.