Tom Wallis is chief marketing officer at Gousto, the UK-based meal kit company which has had a (highly successful) referral scheme since 2013. Before joining Gousto five years ago, Tom worked at Sky, another company which runs heaps of referral schemes. Here he shares how Gousto made its scheme go from so-so to smash hit.
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