Meet The Disruptors: Betsalel J Medioni Of WeVisu On The Five Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry
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Persistence- Some days feel easier than others and some days feel impossible. We learned we have to keep fighting even on the days it feels impossible but you just have to show up everyday. That’s what has gotten us this far.
As a part of our series about business leaders who are shaking things up in their industry, I had the pleasure of interviewing Betsalel J Medioni.
Betsalel J Medioni was born and raised in Israel, eventually emigrating to the United States in 2013, where he landed a job as a runner for a construction company in San Francisco, California. However, Medioni’s thorough experience in construction couldn’t satisfy his thirst for turning original ideas into innovative business solutions. So he founded WeVisu as the first platform that gives customers, contractors, designers, and vendors access to custom digital showrooms, where they can see finished materials, products, and pricing in real time.
Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would like to get to know you a bit more. Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? What led you to this particular career path?
Like every other licensed contractor, Betsalel J Medioni would spend weekend after weekend visiting physical showrooms to find the right layout and materials for a space, gather samples, and later pay for 3D renders to visualize it for his clients. With a newfound perspective and background in startup solutions, Medioni realized this chasm in the preparatory stage was costing contractors, designers, and homeowners far too much time, money, and aggravation. He began constructing a blueprint to streamline the process and eventually partnered with his cousin and global sales leader, Jeremy Medioni, in 2020. A year later, he founded WeVisu as the first all-in-one home improvement platform that gives customers, contractors, designers, and vendors access to custom digital showrooms, where they can see finished materials, products, and pricing in real time.
Can you tell our readers what it is about the work you’re doing that’s disruptive?
We are taking an archaic style of home remodel/design and bringing it into the digital age with direct-to-consumer pricing on finished materials. This allows a win — win — win situation for contractors, homeowners and manufacturers.
Changes: instead of contractors/clients driving around to multiple physical showrooms, or shopping across multiple websites for the different materials →
WEVISU = one stop shop for Bathroom, Kitchen, Bedroom, Hallway, etc… FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME, 24/7, on your schedule.
Can you share a story about the funniest mistake you made when you were first starting? Can you tell us what lesson you learned from that?
We had many of our vendors send us large amounts of samples to our small office. At one point we had to refuse a few shipments. We learned that we need to make sure the whole point of what we do is to avoid showrooms.
We all need a little help along the journey. Who have been some of your mentors? Can you share a story about how they made an impact?
Dr. Gerard Medioni. He encouraged us to build tenets and an unshakable mission statement. That has helped us stay on track to support the customer and contractor in every improvement we make to the platform. If we have a brilliant idea or new functionality, and it does not accomplish a better use scenario for customers, move in from it and refocus on your customers’ needs.
Can you share five of the best words of advice you’ve gotten along your journey? Please give a story or example for each.
Persistence- Some days feel easier than others and some days feel impossible. We learned we have to keep fighting even on the days it feels impossible but you just have to show up everyday. That’s what has gotten us this far.
Teamwork- Communicate and rely on your team for the most success. In a startup you wear many hats. It’s important to know when you can lean on your team or when you have to do it on your own.
Belief- Without it, you don’t stand a chance.
Sleepless-The wheels never stop, and you never know when something might click, could be 3 in the morning.
Hope- Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Your next big break could be right around the corner so don’t give up.
We are sure you aren’t done. How are you going to shake things up next?
Developing 2 new algorithms to better match customers with the products they need for a complete job, and matching contractors with the best customer profiles for their skill-set.
Do you have a book, podcast, or talk that’s had a deep impact on your thinking? Can you share a story with us? Can you explain why it was so resonant with you?
I had a conversation with my uncle and I said to him we have so many ideas and so many things we want to do.. He said it is important to stay on track and focus on what you are trying to solve. You will always have many new ideas but don’t get off track from what your main goal is.
Can you please give us your favorite “Life Lesson Quote”? Can you share how that was relevant to you in your life?
‘I never lose because I never quit’
You are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger. 🙂
A movement to be consistent and be a believer.
Every idea and any project can be done. Be consistent and be a believer. If you don’t have that, nothing can be done. With money or without money you can always start anything you want. Just start.
How can our readers follow you online?
Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/betsalel-medioni-1a8623194/
This was very inspiring. Thank you so much for joining us!
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