Can Partiful keep the party going?

One hundred dollars will buy you 8 pounds of glitter; 10 Domino's pizzas; 406 miniature disco balls from Temu; or 100 cans of Coors Light. For a friend's birthday party one year, Ayla D'Silva spent $100 on sour candy and made a "sour candy salad." Even sweeter was that she didn't have to foot the bill - the money came from Partiful.

As a college ambassador for the startup, D'Silva got a small stipend every month to throw a party on her college campus. There were very few rules and no metrics to hit on RSVPs or ticket sales, she says - it just had to be hosted on the Partiful app. Facebook events were dead; party planning and RSVPing were f …

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