Being the best we can B
How our business is helping us make an impact—and why we’re letting the world know all about it.
In 2012, someone told me that it takes 10 years to build and grow a business. Back then, friends were building or selling their companies and pivoting every three minutes, so the advice fell on deaf ears. It felt as if you had to sell out to succeed. But we didn't.
We have been building WeTransfer for 15 years now, and we are so far from done! We are growing, and profitable and there is still so much to do. With our reach, it's our responsibility to use it for impact, to be honest.
It's because of you, the WeTransfer community, that we are able to do a lot of the incredible work that we do to support emerging artists
I often hear you don’t know about the many things we get up to, which is a symptom of being an Anglo-Dutch business. Humility can be quite intrinsic for us but we will take it as our sign to say it louder for the people in the back. Not to boast but to set the bar. To proudly show what doing good really looks like.
wSo for the first time ever, we've made a film. Or rather, Curly, our lovely Bristolian crew have.
And as you say in English, it’s 'on the nose': it does exactly what it says on the tin. It's a film based upon a truth - that it's because of you, the WeTransfer community, that we are able to do a lot of the incredible work that we do to support emerging artists. You should feel proud, but how could you if you didn't know?
You probably also didn't know about WePresent, the Oscar-winning platform that tells incredible stories about new and older artists, filmmakers, designers, musicians, and everything in between.
And if you didn't know about that, you are very unlikely to know about the fact that we are one of the few B Corps of our kind and scale with a massive new B Impact score of 101.2, putting us on par with Ben and Jerry's, Aesop, Pukka, and many more.
To celebrate increasing the score WeTransfer-style, we teamed up with Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson as our annual Guest Curator. As a long-time storyteller of sustainability, climate activism and a voice of collective change, he couldn’t be a better fit for our growing ambitions as an impact business. He will be delighting you with his unique picks over the coming months, building on an Earth Day manifesto unveiled in April. Please do read his Editor's Letter here.
And lastly (then I'll stop bragging,) you would never have known about The Supporting Act Foundation (TSA). Set up in 2021, TSA is there to support emerging artists with 1% of the revenue from WeTransfer going unconditionally to underrepresented artists and community groups.
None of these things could have happened in isolation. We are a healthy thriving business, and we are all about profit – even proud about it. The more profit we make, the more impact we make. And while we might look like a file transfer business, at the end of the day, we are an impact business.
If you’d like to learn more about our B Corp journey, progress, goals, and overall ambitions, visit our Corporate Social Responsibility Hub, WeTransfer - style
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