Show Notes
Cristina Vanko discusses her journey to building Arrow, an audio dating app. Cristina discusses (0:30) her upbringing and her early experience as a designer and advertiser on the agency side, (3:32) jumpstarting her freelancing career and how an article about handwriting her text messages went viral, (5:00)(32:20) getting picked up by Penguin Randomhouse to write books on handlettering and adulting, (5:54) getting back into product design during the pandemic and getting the idea for starting an audio dating app, (7:56) building a community for Arrow, (11:20) features on Arrow, (12:48) feedback on Arrow, (14:43) what gave her the idea to build Arrow and why she wants to fight for an audio dating app, (19:00) the landscape for dating apps, (24:24) her search for a co-founder and (30:30) finding side jobs while building Arrow.
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