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Well Made

156 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 92 ratings

The people and ideas that are shaping our patterns of consumption for the better. Hosted by Stephan Ango, co-founder of Lumi.com

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152 What comes next with Amit Sharma, CEO and founder of Narvar

December 30, 2021 12:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MB

Since the early 2000s, Amit Sharma has worked with commerce giants like Walmart and Apple to build supply chain infrastructure. In 2012, he founded Narvar. If you've bought anything online in the past few years, you've no doubt interacted with Narvar. Brands like Sephora, Patagonia, Gap and Sonos, ship millions of products per year using Narvar's comprehensive pre-to-post-purchase software. To fulfill the packaging piece of their pixel-to-package promise, Narvar recently acquired Lumi! In t...

151 Motivated by obligation with climate reporter, Kendra Pierre-Louis

July 15, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MB

Climate anxiety is real. Expounding environmental factors and consumer guilt can make it hard to want to click on the latest climate change headline. But, climate reporter Kendra Pierre-Louis has a track record for making climate change coverage go viral. For example, she wrote a story in The New York Times about evil purple urchins. Whenever climate change swoops in in the form of a flood, fire, or fuzzy caterpillars, Kendra is there to follow the story. Despite her "Gloom is my beat" Twit...

150 Following opportunity with Emmett Shine, Co-founder of Pattern Brands

July 01, 2021 16:29 - 1 hour - 69.4 MB

For Emmett Shine, being in the right place at the right time was never a matter of luck — it was a matter of hustle. It was a practice in leveling up a bit before you're ready, but not overstretching.   After designing, building, and strategizing some of the most iconic modern brands — from Sweetgreen and Whole Foods to Warby Parker and Everlane — his design agency Gin Lane closed to pursue Pattern Brands. They're scaling down and venturing out to build a thoughtful collaborative of home br...

149 Writing a more optimistic future with Amit Gupta, Co-founder of Sudowrite

June 10, 2021 17:10 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB

Being ingrained in the tech startup world has taken Amit Gupta down a different path than most. After selling his first company Photojojo in 2014, he started traveling, writing sci-fi, and more recently, building Sudowrite. Sudowrite is an app for creative writers that uses AI to beat writer's block. You're probably familiar with predictive text models offering suggestions for sentences in your Gmail or text messages. Sudowrite is built off of Open AI's GPT-3 model, and it generates word pa...

148 Making meaning with Reggie James, CEO and founder of Eternal

May 27, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MB

An online identity is a cyclical existence that feeds on the past. Reggie James calls the pre-Facebook internet "proto-identity." From there, we quickly excelled from profile pages to performative identity, slicing up our full self into concise slivers. Reggie James is the CEO and founder of Eternal, a new kind of identity platform. He's rejecting the comforting nostalgia of what users have "liked," and building a new way forward. In this episode, he challenges what we think about when we t...

147 Taking things apart with Tyler Mincey, Partner at Bolt

May 13, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 72.4 MB

As more product categories are getting "smarter," are they actually getting better? Wires, buttons and ports are disappearing from tech devices, meanwhile microchips and apps are being introduced to products that, for decades, have worked just fine without them.  Tyler Mincey is always thinking about the long view of new products. He's brought his decade of product experience from Apple, Fictive Kin, and Pearl Automation to the VC, Bolt, and on this episode, he's disassembling generati...

146 Shipping is changing with Laura Behrens Wu CEO of Shippo

April 29, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB

Accelerated by dire circumstance, ecommerce had record growth over the past year. But behind all those order confirmations and tracking numbers, supply chains and logistics were stretched further than ever. Returning guest Laura Behrens Wu is the CEO and founder of the shipping platform, Shippo and she had a front row seat to watch the rapid growth of brands and shipping providers. In this episode, she's unpacking the past year of shipping from every perspective: consumer, brand, and carrie...

145 Becoming good ancestors with futurist Kevin Kelly

April 15, 2021 16:04 - 41 minutes - 38 MB

In his blog post titled My Life Countdown, Kevin Kelly cites a friend's philosophy of approaching your life's projects in 5-year chunks. His newest project, Vanishing Asia has broken this 5-year rule, clocking in at 5 decades.    Every one of his trips to Asia in the past fifty years has led to this 1000-page, three-volume book, capturing 9,000 photos. Kevin is known for being an eloquent futurist, a purveyor of tech and cool tools, and the founding executive editor of Wired. So at first gl...

144 Sourcing more patiently with Jeremiah McElwee, Chief Merchandising Officer at Thrive Market

April 09, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 71.6 MB

For the past few decades, Jeremiah McElwee has not only had a front row seat to some of the most significant growth in the natural products industry, he's been one of the people in the driver's seat. As part of the Thrive Market team since its origin, Jeremiah has led everything from category growth and farm partnerships to product packaging and the shoppable values. To build patient supply chain partnerships and keep an only-the-best product catalog, Jeremiah says they have to take their t...

143 Taking care of yourself with Trinity Mouzon Wofford, co-founder of Golde

April 01, 2021 11:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MB

There are a number of ways that the wellness industry can feel exclusionary. Sometimes, a product's information is overly complex and other times it's pitched as a total lifestyle overhaul. But sustainable growth is often slow and healthy changes are gradual.  In the three years since launching Golde, Trinity Mouzon Wofford is perfecting her knack for balance — between accessibility and quality, between scale and mission, and between business partner and life partner. Visit the Lumi blog f...

142 Testing the edges with Jenna Lyons, founder and CEO of Loveseen

March 18, 2021 11:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MB

After 27 years as the iconic mind behind J.Crew creative, Jenna Lyons is a few months into the launch of a brand new startup – Loveseen. Of course, her decades of creative and marketing success are invaluable to her new pursuit, but she admits that she still has a lot she has to learn. Visit the Lumi blog for links and images.

141 Keeping clothing out of landfills with Kristy Caylor, CEO and founder of For Days

March 04, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB

When you order a Take Back bag from For Days, you fill it with old clothes (in any condition, from any brand), ship it back to them, and they give you store credit. But behind that very simple exchange is a complex supply chain that's built on circularity. When founder Kristy Caylor learned that on average, each person in the US sends 70 pounds of fabric to the landfill, it was an epiphany. If you think about how to shrink your annual pile of unwanted clothes, donation, resale, and repair m...

140 Streaming the runway with Hilary Milnes, Americas Editor at Vogue Business

February 25, 2021 19:50 - 1 hour - 57.2 MB

In the summer of 2018, we talked to Hilary Milnes about how retail isn't dead but it's changing, the struggle of shuttering department stores, and innovative ways that online and offline shopping can intersect. Over two years later, it's a case of same same but different. Hilary is still covering retail and fashion, but as the Americas Editor for Vogue Business. And now, one year into the pandemic, these trend trajectories have spiked, forcing brands to accelerate faster than anyone predict...

139 Impressing the eco-nerds with Alden Wicker, founder and EIC of EcoCult

February 18, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB

When consumers see a brand that claims to be "sustainable," reporter Alden Wicker encourages them to investigate. Every product's supply chain has different sustainability opportunities, so sustainability strategies will look different for every brand. First, she says brands have to acknowledge that sustainability is not binary. One product can be more sustainable than another, but sustainability is an ongoing journey rather than a final destination. Next, brands need to define their sustai...

138 Getting comfortable with trade-offs with Ian Montgomery, Founder and Creative Director of Guacamole Airplane

February 11, 2021 12:00 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB

When you're researching a sustainability topic, it can feel like a Russian nesting doll of rabbit holes — you often end up with more questions than when you started. The good news is, if you find yourself deliberating the gray areas of sustainability, then you're in the right place. Ian Montgomery says that designing for sustainability is all about getting comfortable with tradeoffs. He is the founder and Creative Director of Guacamole Airplane, a design studio focused on sustainable packag...

137 Subscribing to a shoe with Caspar Coppetti, Co-founder of On

January 28, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MB

The first step to making Cyclon, On's recyclable shoe, was to use a single family of materials — polyamide (made from castor beans!). But that's just one piece of the cradle-to-cradle puzzle. To capture the shoes for recycling, they've developed a subscription model and a dedicated recycling stream. Staying true to the mission, these shoes aren't recycled to turn into other plastic goods down the line — they're recycled into new Cyclon shoes. It's an experiment that co-founder Caspar Coppe...

136 Building the future right now with Kristy Tillman, founder of Tomorrow Looks Bright

December 31, 2020 12:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MB

After four years as Slack's Head of Global Design and before taking her new role at Facebook, Kristy Tillman brought her side projects to the forefront. Kristy has a list of impressive side projects in her creative think tank, Tomorrow Looks Bright. It's a place where she does more than invite herself to the table — she creates the table and sits at the head. Kristy's work is always driven by optimism and an urgent need for a more equitable future which doesn't start in a decade, or in a ye...

135 Aspiring to ubiquity with Rumpl CEO and Founder, Wylie Robinson

November 18, 2020 12:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MB

Before Rumpl, sleeping-bag-style puffy blankets were predominantly marketed to Alpine athletes. Rumpl didn't invent the category, but founder and CEO, Wylie Robinson is doing everything he can to expand it. Wylie likes to ask people a simple question, "How many blankets do you have at home?" Then he asks, "How many of the brands can you name?" Outside of heritage brands like Pendleton or Woolrich, there is very little brand loyalty in the blanket business. Beyond that, there's little being ...

134 Starting from scratch with Boll & Branch founder and CEO, Scott Tannen

November 11, 2020 12:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MB

By his own account, Boll & Branch founder, Scott Tannen knows that his bedding brand may not be the first that comes to mind when you think of "cool" DTCs. The branding is classic and the style feels universal, but dig into the Boll & Branch supply chain and you'll find that they're totally changing the game for how textiles can (and should) be manufactured. Before he had a logo, or even a brand, Scott had drafted out the unwavering brand principals which deviated far from the norm of the t...

133 Designing for longevity with Andy Fallshaw, Bellroy Co-founder and CEO

November 05, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

If you bought a Bellroy wallet when the company launched a decade ago, you're probably still using it. For the past ten years, while they've worked to slim down your every day carry, they've slimmed down their environmental impact behind the scenes. CEO and co-founder Andy Fallshaw has a unique brand of optimism that's a constant ebb and flow between digging into details, and panning out to see the full picture. On this episode, he's settling into the nuance of sustainability, talking throu...

132 Creating future nostalgia with Sara Fritsch, President of Schoolhouse

October 28, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MB

By definition, an heirloom has proved that it's resilient, timeless, and special enough to have been passed down for generations. That's how Schoolhouse started, with the discovery of a collection of cast-iron molds that stood the test of time. For the past 18 years, Schoolhouse has designed and manufactured high quality home goods with "heirloom quality" as the guiding light. As President, Sara Fritsch works across teams to lead the company mindfully without wavering on quality. Their supp...

131 Building direct relationships with Carl Rivera, General Manager of Shop

September 30, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB

In April, Shopify launched Shop, the consumer-facing counterpart to Shopify. In the app, buyers have direct access to thousands of companies selling through Shopify. The Shop app not only connects shoppers to brands of all sizes, but it makes the checkout flows we're used to feel incredibly arduous and clunky. Even with its intuitive UI, simple payments, and transparent shipment tracking, Shop General Manager Carl Rivera says this is just version 0.5.   Since selling his company Tictail to ...

130 Giving your brand a soul with Emily Singer, creator of the Chips + Dips newsletter

September 23, 2020 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MB

Emily Singer is the creator of the newsletter Chips + Dips. A couple times a month, she shares news about consumer brands and marketing trends, but her insights get deeper than data. She draws perceptive connections amidst brands, but she also gets personal, making the newsletter feel like a DTC diary. In the newsletter's 26th issue, Emily is four months into the COVID-19 pandemic and reflecting on a shift in perspective and an overall lack of excitement for new brands — How could I get exc...

129 Unlearning and reeducating with Céline Semaan, founder of Slow Factory

September 09, 2020 11:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB

The slow pace of the pandemic has given many of us the opportunity to take a step back and reexamine our impact on people and the planet. This slower pace may seem counterintuitive in the face of urgent crises like climate change and systemic racism, but Céline Semaan and her team at Slow Factory have decided that it's the right pace for real, lasting progress.    Systemic change, Céline says, comes first with unlearning old systems, then relearning by way of open education. In fact, she pl...

128 Giving a Crap with Danny Alexander, co-founder and CPO of Who Gives a Crap

September 02, 2020 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MB

At the beginning of the pandemic, we all discovered that toilet paper is a product that we've taken for granted. But since 2012, Danny Alexander, Co-founder and CPO of Who Gives A Crap has unraveled the true potential of the stuff. From launch, Who Gives a Crap has had purpose built into their business. They donate half of all their profits to non-profit organizations that are working to improve access to hygiene, water and basic sanitation in developing countries. With a 1,100% increase in...

127 Adopting new shopping behaviors with Dan Frommer, founder and Editor-in-Chief of The New Consumer

August 26, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MB

In the US, more people are shopping online than ever. This stark jump in ecommerce has left a lot of industry experts asking how new ecommerce businesses can successfully launch in the midst of a pandemic, where does the ecommerce experience still falls short, and if the pandemic has permanently changed how we shop.  To answer all these questions, we're talking to Dan Frommer. Dan is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The New Consumer where he researches and writes about why and how people...

126 Decolonizing spices with Sana Javeri Kadri, founder of Diaspora Co.

August 19, 2020 17:02 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MB

Most of the spices you buy at the grocery store are several years old, but that's only part of the problem. When Diaspora Co. founder  Sana Javeri Kadri discovered how disconnected US spice pantries are from their origins, she started a company to change how we think about our spice supply chains.  Diaspora Co. is one of only a few direct trade spice companies out there, and sourcing these spices has been a lesson in disconnecting heirloom spices from the influence of Western coloni...

125 Making it onto the grocery list with Chris Kirby, founder and President of Ithaca Hummus

August 12, 2020 16:34 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB

Five months into a pandemic, going to the grocery store requires much more than a reusable tote. You're probably suiting up with a mask, hand sanitizer, and a grocery list to make sure that you're in and out as quickly as possible. Ithaca Hummus can only be found in grocery stores but the founder, Chris Kirby, built the brand to be flexible so they could adapt to times like these. He's always been focused on making sustainable, scalable choices for the business, and that hasn't changed in t...

125 Making it onto the grocery list with Chris Kirby, Founder and President of Ithaca Hummus

August 12, 2020 16:34 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB

Five months into a pandemic, going to the grocery store requires much more than a reusable tote. You're probably suiting up with a mask, hand sanitizer, and a grocery list to make sure that you're in and out as quickly as possible. Ithaca Hummus can only be found in grocery stores but the founder, Chris Kirby, built the brand to be flexible so they could adapt to times like these. He's always been focused on making sustainable, scalable choices for the business, and that hasn't cha...

124 Protecting people and planet with Leah Thomas, founder of Intersectional Environmentalist

August 05, 2020 17:51 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MB

"Intersectional environmentalist." You may have heard those two words separately, but Leah Thomas was the first person to put them together. "Intersectional" is a powerful framework that, when combined with the environmentalist movement, illuminates issues of inequity in climate change. As Leah Thomas talks about in this episode, Eric Garner's last words, "I can't breathe" take on an even bigger meaning when considering that poor air quality disproportionately affects the lives of people of...

123 Looking to Nature with Hillary Peterson, Founder of True Botanicals

June 24, 2020 17:10 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB

One of the biggest obstacles for True Botanicals was the preconceived notion that natural products don't work as well as those riddled with toxins. To prove the potency of natural ingredients, True Botanicals invested in top notch suppliers promoting biodiversity and clinical trials to prove that these ingredients outperformed leading skincare products. On this episode, True Botanicals founder Hillary Peterson talks customer education, pricing high performing products, her transition away f...

122 Scaling Environmental Accountability with Chelsea Mozen, Director of Sustainability at Etsy

June 17, 2020 11:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB

Every time you order an item from a seller on Etsy, the company offsets the emissions created from shipping that order. Since the start of this initiative in February of last year, Etsy has invested in offsetting 173,000 metric tons of CO2. While offsetting these emissions accomplishes a big goal for the Etsy Sustainability team, Director of Sustainability, Chelsea Mozen says it's not the first or last item on their to-do list. Go to the Lumi blog for links and images.

121 Following Through with Stephan Ango

June 12, 2020 20:41 - 7 minutes - 6.57 MB

On our podcast, we talk about changing patterns of consumption to mitigate the risk of climate change, but we've overlooked a huge blindspot — how climate change disproportionally and profoundly harms communities of color. Full episode transcript available.

120 Trying New Things with Julie Nguyen, CEO and Co-founder of Methodology

May 20, 2020 15:25 - 55 minutes - 51 MB

A fridge that's full of Methodology meals isn't stacked with disposable trays. A Methodology fridge is stocked with columns of colorful foods, visible through glass jars. Founder Julie Nguyen knows that the Methodology audience is niche — busy people who value high quality, sustainable ingredients — but since they launched five years ago, she's seen their dedicated customer base grow. Every week with her co-founder Stephen Liu and their R&D team, Julie is sourcing new ingredients, while ke...

119 Knowing What it Means to Be a Good Business with Eric Edelson, CEO of Fireclay Tile

May 13, 2020 11:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MB

The tile industry moves slowly, but when Eric Edelson joined the Fireclay Tile team, he was set on speeding things up. They were making a phenomenal product and it felt like they’d hit their limit in wholesale. In a sort of eureka moment, Eric penned a new manifesto/business model for a going direct to consumer. That was in 2008. With new flexibility and freedom, Fireclay Tile has experimented with all kinds of upcycled materials (from toilets to monitors), software for customization, sampl...

118 Making Kombucha Mainstream with Vanessa Dew, Co-founder and CSO of Health-Ade Kombucha

May 06, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MB

If you already know that kombucha is fermented tea, you're in the minority. If you drink it, you're in an even smaller minority. In the US, only 17% of US households drink kombucha. The idea of a fermented tea made from a hunk of slimy-looking culture is not immediately appetizing, but the taste and health benefits have appealed to people for thousands of years — it's only in the past decade that it's become a mainstay in every health foods store. When Health-Ade Kombucha launched in Los An...

117 Preparing for the Unexpected with Simon Huck, CEO and Co-founder of Judy

April 29, 2020 11:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MB

The very nature of an emergency is that you don't know when it's coming. It's this vast unknown that paralyzes most people from making plans for worst-case scenarios. Simon Huck, CEO and co-founder of Judy says that people who are unprepared often fall victim to thinking that emergencies could never happen to them or being overwhelmed by all the preparation that has to be done. Judy’s emergency kits and preparedness content are setting out to change that.  Judy launched weeks before the spi...

116 Rethinking your Framework with Vanessa Barboni Hallik, CEO of Another Tomorrow

April 23, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

Another Tomorrow launched in January, and already they've built an impressive criteria of sustainability standards to keep their supply chain ethical for human, animals, and the planet. Those are the three pillars of their business. Vanessa Barboni Hallik didn't start in fashion. She started in finance, but as she was researching more sustainable finance, she uncovered the huge disparities in the supply chain ethics of fashion fashion brands and luxury sustainable brands. The gap felt unsur...

115 Navigating Difficult Times with Davis Smith, Founder and CEO of Cotopaxi

April 21, 2020 11:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MB

Davis Smith is the founder of Cotopaxi and to grow his team, he's built an environment where people can create. One of the most physical manifestations of those creations is the Del Dia Collection of bags. They're repurposed from remnants of fabric and each bag is a one-of-a-kind colorway, designed by the craftspeople sewing them. As they've grown for the past six years, the Cotopaxi mission to Do Good has extended to new geographies with systemic supply chain shifts to start eradicating ...

115 Navigating Difficult Times with Cotopaxi Founder and CEO, Davis Smith

April 21, 2020 11:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MB

Davis Smith is the founder of Cotopaxi and to grow his team, he's built an environment where people can create. One of the most physical manifestations of those creations is the Del Dia Collection of bags. They're repurposed from remnants of fabric and each bag is a one-of-a-kind colorway, designed by the craftspeople sewing them. As they've grown for the past six years, the Cotopaxi mission to Do Good has extended to new geographies with systemic supply chain shifts to start era...

114 Finding Strength in Numbers with Nate Checketts, founder and CEO of Rhone

April 15, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MB

In the midst of a pandemic, businesses and consumers are prompted to hurry up and wait. Meanwhile, the definition of essentials is governed, retail locations are ordered to close, and more and more people are out of work.  While a period of in-between can feel stagnant, Rhone founder Nate Checketts decided to take action. He recruited 20 brands to join BRANDS × BETTER — a new coalition of companies that have pledged to donate a portion of their funds to COVID-19 relief organizations. Thi...

113 Trying to Do Right with Alden Wicker, sustainability journalist and founder of Eco Cult

April 08, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

With fewer cars on the road, COVID-19 could lead to the biggest drop in emissions since WWII, but this stat doesn't paint a full picture of the pandemic's environmental impact. Sustainability is complicated, and journalist Alden Wicker is an expert in navigating the nuances. Alden worries that the strain on businesses could set back environmental progress by a decade. In Bangladesh, one million apparel factory workers have been laid off due to a shortage of new orders and huge businesses li...

112 Branding a Feeling with Benjamin Witte, Founder and CEO of Recess

April 01, 2020 11:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB

In many ways, the cannabis industry still feels like a grey area. That's why Recess founder Benjamin Witte didn't set out to build a brand on top of an ingredient — he wanted to build a brand on top of a feeling. The creative community has adopted the fruit-infused CBD drink with open arms, which is very much by design. The pastel gradients, neon signs, and ephemeral imagery are all meant to evoke that easy sense of creative calm. Lately, Benjamin has spent most of his time pushing for the...

111 Becoming a Forest with Henrik Werdelin, CEO and Co-Founder of Bark

March 25, 2020 11:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MB

Barkbox hasn't followed the conventional direct-to-consumer-brand growth plan. Since launching Barkbox in 2012, Henrik Werdelin and his co-founders have launched several companion brands including Super Chewer and Bark Bright — dog dental hygiene products. These products may seem obvious, but the strategy behind them is not. Rather than expanding from dogs to other pets, Bark chose to dig deeper into the nuance of the dog space. Instead of launching these new products under the Barkbox prod...

110 Longing for Less with Author Kyle Chayka

February 26, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

While it feels like a new trend, every couple decades, there is a new take on minimalism. Writer Kyle Chayka has studied minimalism's many iterations over time and he argues that our modern interpretation — one that's rooted so deeply in aesthetics — is as far as we've ever been from true minimalism. In his first book, The Longing for Less, Kyle is on a quest to illuminate the origins of minimalism. He critiques various modern interpretations including the Marie Kondo methodology, the Wirec...

109 Offsetting Carbon with Peter Dering, Co-Founder of Climate Neutral of CEO at Peak Design

February 12, 2020 12:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB

Peter Dering knows that there's some controversy around purchasing carbon offsets, but as the founder of Climate Neutral, he thinks it's an immediate path forward. Before Climate Neutral, he founded Peak Design. He and his team design photographic accessories and outsource the manufacturing. After visiting one of his factories, he was looking around at all of the materials and energy that went into production and he started strategizing options to cut down on resources where they could, and ...

108 Culling Through the Clutter with Emily Schildt, founder of Pop-Up Grocer

February 05, 2020 13:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MB

The grocery store model hasn’t adapted with how people shop. Traditional big box stores stock up on everything under the sun and rely on small margins based for big cart sizes. With traditional grocery stores struggling and US consumers being slow to adopt online grocery, Emily Schildt saw an opportunity to prioritize discovery over convenience as a way to help people find brands they actually love. Pop-up Grocer is a highly curated 30-day activation featuring grocery brands that get an A+ ...

107 Building Genuine Brands with Very Great Co-founders, Eric Prum and Josh Williams

January 22, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB

There are dozens of tools out there to build and launch products, but Very Great has set out to launch brands — companies creating products that improve lives and keep people coming back. They're doing it with a platform that centralizes the functions of any consumer brand. From research and development, through launch and logistics, Very Great is an infrastructure to build a brand that lasts. So far, co-founders Eric Prum and Josh Williams have helped to launch three brands in the Very Gre...

106 Predicting the Next Decade with Elizabeth Segran

January 16, 2020 23:53 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB

Fast Company Senior Staff writer, Elizabeth Segran is an expert in the cross section where fashion, technology, and ecommerce overlap. For every company that recycles innovative materials for fabric, opens an immersive retails space, or builds a sustainability initiative into their model, she's there to cover it. That's why we invited her on the show to reflect on the past couple decades of consumer trends and — more importantly — make some insightful predictions about what's to come.  On t...

105 Using Waste as Currency with Jeremy Lang, Founder of Pela

January 08, 2020 17:36 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB

Phone cases don’t need to last a lifetime, but in a landfill, they might. Pela cases are made from a blend of biopolymers and flax scraps meant last a few years — basically, the lifetime of your phone. When you get a new device, you can compost the case or ship it back to Pela. As more and more consumers are choosing sustainable products, phone cases may not be obvious, but the impact is significant. Jermey Lang founded Pela part-time, doing the initial research and development with governm...

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