Is Flip a visa scheme for a CIA asset?
Kendall Dickieson from Graza, Canopy, Nuggs, and Olipop explains the new app.
Good morning.
Two weekends ago, I kept seeing post screenshots of an app called Flip on Twitter and their Instagram Stories. The site explains Flip as, “A feel-good shopping experience for people with serious standards and an even more serious obsession with shopping. A unique experience in every sense.” Obviously that wasn’t going to get me to keep clicking around their site, so I had to reach out to some of the seeming evangelists of this app to see what was going on.
One person told me that Flip is a visa scheme for a CIA asset, sending me this article from Forbes which reads, ‘‘I landed in the US, August 19 2019. I started the company three months after arriving. I came to America just to launch Flip,’ says Agha. When he arrived in LA, it took him just three days to get a house, a car and then begin launching the company. But the biggest challenge for Agha was getting a green card to be able to travel and work in the US. Getting the US State Department to issue a former Iraqi-born refugee a green card would typically be close to impossible.”
Kendall Dickieson is a marketing consultant who has worked at brands like Graza, Olipop, Nuggs, and Canopy. I think she’s brilliant and always follow a conversation involving her closely. I reached out to her about her experience with Flip and this is what I found out. (She also has experience on the brand side, as Graza is on Flip, so if you guys are interested in a part two, let me know).