VBT 163: Izzy Shu of JOI on Turning a Thesis Project into a Vegan Milk Business with a Difference
Vegan Business Talk
English - June 11, 2021 08:31 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Marketing business entrepreneur entrepreneurship ethicalbusiness smallbusiness vegan veganbusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode I interview Izzy Shu, one of four co-founders of JOI (Just One Ingredient), a plant-based milk company with a difference.
When Izzy and her fellow co-founders met in grad school, they quickly realized their shared passion for healthier lifestyles and a quest to make the world more sustainable, and created a thesis project: An innovative solution to make plant-based milks cleaner, more accessible and more eco-friendly.
In 2016, JOI was created. The company offers concentrates made from whole, natural, raw ingredients which, when blended with water, create customizable, instant clean and nutritious plant-based milks.
Before founding JOI, Izzy worked in marketing and brand identity, as well as graphic and production design.
In this interview Izzy discusses:
• Why the company pivoted from hardware manufacturer to creating food products, despite investing time and money in the former
• How JOI is different to other plant-based milks and also to standard ‘instant milk’
• The benefits of a subscription-based sales model and a customer rewards program
• How Covid impacted the business – in a good way
• And more
Visit the JOI website
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My Online PR Course for Vegan Business Owners & Entrepreneurs: Vegans in the Limelight
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