OpusClip

OpusClip is the world's leading AI video editing agent that turns any type of long-form video into short, shareable clips and compilations.

As the head of strategic partnerships I'm responsible for strategic initiatives including technology alliances, the OpusClip API Partner Program, and our enterprise offering.

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Partnership Leaders

Chapter Host - San Francisco 

(various)

Presenting and hosting workshops on partnerships, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
My TEDx talk "There is No Luck. Only Good Marketing." gained +500k views.

Public Speaker

Hopin

Responsible for key strategic partners (Youtube, Meta, Linkedin etc.) of our live streaming business, StreamYard, on which most of the company's revenue depends.

Director, Strategic Partnerships: StreamYard & Streamable

Responsible for Hopin's app store and product partnerships for emerging products in the Hopin suite.

Past milestones include: 
- Grew from 0 to +50 high-quality, vetted Hopin partner integrations in one year.
- Launched key partnerships with Linkedin, HubSpot, Salesforce, and more.
- Developed partner program (internal / external enablement, co-selling playbooks etc) from scratch.
- Improved key product metrics to increase retention among our most important customer segments

Senior Partnerships Manager, Product Partnerships 

Hire #16 and #3 on the go-to-market team. My favourite achievements:

- Helped to move hundreds of thousands of events online during the onset of the covid pandemic
- Invented the job of "virtual events manager" and helped clients stay employed
- Created hundreds of jobs at our partner agencies who ran thousands of events per month.

Other milestones include: 

- Closed +$2M in sales deal in six months while developing our agency partner program
- Developed and sold Hopin's first ever annual (+$50k) and enterprise deals (+$120k).
- Closed +90 deals in 2020, largest deal size +$400k
- Identified the opportunity and built the Hopin Events Agency Program from scratch.
- The agency program ultimately grew to +300 agencies which generated +$13M in revenue. 
- Managed a team of partner managers to oversee our agency co-selling motion. 
- Interviewed hundreds of team members and key execs, growing Hopin to +1,200 employees
- Helped Hopin achieve global coverage through event agencies within four month.
- The agency program ultimately would replace our entire event services function.

Head of Agency Partnerships

StreamYard

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Tick. Done.

Tick. Done. is the micro-video platform for instant knowledge sharing. Together with our team and my co-founders, Cedric (CTO, INSEAD) and Jess (CMO, former co-founder of UK unicorn Blippar), we are on a mission to empower a billion people with a million new skills. 

- To date, raised funding of +£550k from top VCs like Seedcamp and Ascension Ventures
- Featured by Forbes, Product Hunt #1 of the Day, Apple App Store, Slush, and more
- Overseeing strategy, marketing, and product management
- Recruiting, managing, and grateful to our team of 12 legends
- Establishing partnerships, e.g. Google AMP Project (featured at AMP Tokyo and Google I/O)

Co-Founder & CEO

Zinc VC

Entrepreneur in the first cohort of Zinc VC, a mission-driven startup incubator backed by LocalGlobe. Together with 50 bright minds, I embarked on a nine-month journey to find co-founders and a startup idea that will address some of the world's most pressing issues.

- Selected for the inaugural cohort (<5% acceptance rate)
- Built a network of mentors and advisors among London's top founders and investors
- Assembled an all-star team: thanks Jess (former Unicorn founder) and Cedric (tech genius)
- Conducted user research and rapidly tested and iterated towards our idea for Tick. Done.
- Raised +£550k after pitching to a variety of partners and investors

Entrepreneur 

Rolling Promotion

At Rolling Promotion, we offered an environmentally friendly and innovative approach to advertising. Selected for the Startup Bootcamp Accelerator "Smart City and Living '17" Cohort.

Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer

RockBoost - The Dutch Growth Hacking Agency

Rockboost Growth Hacking Agency is one of the leading Dutch agencies for growth consulting and education. A Growth Hacker is a creative marketer, product manager, and data analyst all together, whos true north is growth.

- Educated SME customers on growth methodologies and implementing growth processes 
- Conducted qual/quant research and experiments with clients in Europe and Latin America 
- Leveraged a diverse range of strategies (data analysis & machine learning in R & Python, smoke screens, A/B testing, etc.) to run iterative experiments for clients and discover untapped marketing opportunities

Growth Hacker

ECE Students

Founding member, external relations manager, and talk show host of the Erasmus Center For Entrepreneurship Students' "Minimum Viable Talkshow", an event with high-profile guests aimed at delivering hands-on advice to student entrepreneurs.

- Responsible for acquiring and interviewing high-profile guests such as Christian Stadil (Investor at Danish "Shark Tank"), Jan-Peter Balkenende (Former Dutch Prime Minister), and Marian Van Loon (President of Royal Dutch Shell NL).
- Developed the talk show and event format, growing to an audience size of +150 students
- Managed and maintained existing relationships with speakers and sponsors

External Relations Manager & Talk Show Host

Strategic Partnerships @ StreamYard | Captain @ The Partner Ship 🚢

Franz Schrepf is the Head of Strategic Partnerships at OpusClip, the #1 AI video editing tool used by 6M+ creators and businesses around the world. 

Before Opus he was the #16 employee at Hopin and StreamYard, a virtual events and live streaming company which Sifted called "Europe's fastest growing startup of all time." 
 
His new book, "The Book on Partnerships: How Startups Work With Partners To Sell More, Add Features, And Get Acquired.", is a foundational guide full of stories and insights from 50+ industry experts that explain the power of partnerships in the most basic terms.  

Franz is also a frequent contributor and speaker on the topic of partnerships on podcasts, blogs, events, and conferences as well as the host of one of the most popular partnership podcasts, The Partner Ship 🚢.

Originally from Germany, Franz lives with his wife and daughter in San Francisco, where he organizes monthly partnerships meetups together with the Partnerships Leaders community.

Franz-Josef Schrepf (FJS)

Strategic partnerships + business development executive with over 15 years of diverse experience generating results including driving revenue, building product integration partnerships, and establishing alliances for companies ranging from small startups to large public tech companies on a global scale.  

Partnership success across industries including airlines, hospitality / travel, technology, software, ad-tech, fintech, media, cybersecurity, e-commerce, retail, and non-profit. 

Leadership positions at Meta, Expedia, Hopin, Hiya and Sonder leading global teams. 

Advise startups such as Monarch Money and Memwell.ai on partnerships strategy and execution.

Diverse partnerships experience enables me to bring innovative partnership ideas to any organization.

Passionate about diversity and recently established the first LGBTQ+ network for identifying strategic partnerships professionals in collaboration with the Partnership Leaders organization

Avid traveler (70+ countries) and passionate about health & wellness, opera, aviation, technology, and learning new languages.

Specialties: strategic partnerships, business development, team management, cross functional team leadership, strategy, business operations, corporate development, sales, marketing, product integrations, AI

Andrew Beckmann

🙏 Thank you to the Phocuswright team for hosting an incredible conference in San Diego! The official theme was "Game On," but the real takeaway for me was: It’s Game On for Agentic Travel Booking 

 🚂  🚂  🚂 Three tips / themes stood out to me for brands interested in jumping on the agentic booking train 🚂  🚂  🚂 

1. ⏰ Don't wait! Start prepping your business for agentic bookings & commerce now. Curate your website, apps, FAQs and relevant content to be agent & AI readable. If AI can't read it, travelers can't book it.

2. 🔑 Reach out to and lean on expert partners 
Very few brands have the tech resources and expertise to enable agentic travel bookings. Winning requires leaning on partners, like Stripe, who have thousands of strategists and engineers obsessing about agentic commerce daily. 

3. 💰 The stablecoin + agentic combo will accelerate global business growth  Combining agents with fast, low-cost money movement powered by stablecoins will change the game in a safe and secure way (think instant b2b payouts, currency volatility hedging, access to new customers and partners in hard to reach markets and more....).  Businesses that operate globally stand to benefit most.

Please DM me if you'd like to learn more about Stripe's agentic and stablecoin strategies and plans!

Aside from themes and tips, there were so many highlights including seeing the fabulous Clara Liang represent Stripe and share our agentic and stablecoin vision on the mainstage, engaging in deep conversations with travel execs at a breakfast Stripe co-hosted with our friends at Affirm, and most of all...catching up with so many friends and travel industry legends including:

Jim Terpstra, Bryan Bachrad, Andreas Nau, Indrajit Bavan, Simone Maillard,  Ashwin Kamlani, Chris Hickson, Gloria Colgan, Tom Botts, Chelsea Salamone, Tedd Evers, Alexander Gevers Deynoot, Kristen Pratt, Tom Klenotic, Juliana Ortego, Lisa Weier Parilla, Paul Swanston, Mitul Gandhi, Tara Stangel, Terrance Rogers, Claudio Altieri, Kameron Bertine, Tyler Carrico , Bruce Rosenberg, John Prince, Anu Karunatilaka, Hailey Tonas, Michael Carfagnini, CPA, Ankit Khanna, Morgan Hines, John Matson, Brennen Bliss, Ben Kind, Tom Buckley, Jared Alster, Andy Piggott and many more!

Strategic Partnerships & BD Leader @Stripe | Ex-Bain, Meta, Expedia | Kellogg MBA

🤯 128% growth in payment volume in 1 year?? 📈

Yep! GuruHotel did it with smart strategy and Stripe's support

GuruHotel smartly views payments as a growth engine, not a cost center. By building their financial infrastructure on Stripe, they didn’t just "add payments"—they solved a big operational headache independent hotels face (offering / accepting payments) and enabled a new revenue stream

Additional results include:
✅ Speed to Market: They cut hotel onboarding time from days to just 15 minutes (!)
✅ Risk Reduction: Using Stripe's Radar for Fraud Teams, they drove a 70% decrease in chargebacks. 
✅ Conversion: 25% of all bookings now happen via Link (Stripe’s 1-click checkout), removing friction for travelers. 
✅ Global Reach: Using Stripe Atlas, they instantly dual-incorporated to serve hotels across Mexico, the US, and the Caribbean.

Leading hospitality platforms aren't just providing software anymore...they are becoming the financial operating system for their users.

Incredible execution by the GuruHotel team led by Josue Gio (with Catriel Sabatini's support!)

If you are building a travel or hospitality platform and want to see how embedded finance drives these kinds of numbers, take a look at the full case study. 👇

https://lnkd.in/edZMAqs7

#TravelTech #Hospitality #Stripe #PlatformGrowth #EmbeddedFinance

Open article: GuruHotel Grows Payment Volume 128% and Helps Hotels Book International Travelers | Stripe by stripe.com

GuruHotel Grows Payment Volume 128% and Helps Hotels Book International Travelers | Stripe

💥 Stripe and Affirm are teaming up at Phocuswright's San Diego Conference next week! 💥 

If you're a travel and hospitality exec headed to the conference, DM me for an invite to our exclusive breakfast at Malibu Farm on November 18, 2025, before the Phocuswright Conference kicks off in San Diego.

🤝 🥑 Connect with payment and fintech leaders in travel while enjoying a healthy breakfast spread....and learn how travel companies are using flexible payment solutions to increase conversion rates and boost traveler satisfaction!

Please also reach out if you'll be at the conference and want to connect 1:1

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