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Tyler Mincey, Bolt: Taking things apart – Well Made E147

Tyler Mincey is a Partner at Bolt where he's always thinking about the long view of new products. With a decade of product experience, he's envisioning a future of tech that's more integrated and ambient than ever before.

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Trinity Mouzon Wofford, Golde: Taking care of yourself – Well Made E143

The price, time commitment, and vocabulary involved in self-care can leave consumers stranded and overwhelmed. With Golde, Trinity Mouzon Wofford is determined to make healthy changes — in business and body — more accessible.

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Henrik Werdelin, Barkbox: Becoming a Forest – Well Made E111

Scalability has its limits. Taking his queue from Apple and Amazon, Barkbox founder Henrik Werdelin is thinking beyond big trees and planting seeds for something even bigger.

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Stuart Landesberg, Grove Collaborative: Prioritizing the Long Term – Well Made E104

Momentum is building around sustainable purchasing and Stuart Landesberg believes this is just the beginning. The CEO and Co-founder of Grove Collaborative shares a piece-by-piece sustainability strategy and the outlook that could make Grove a 100-year company.

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Susan Tynan, Framebridge: Solving a Worthy Problem – Well Made E101

Framing priceless pieces requires a ton of customer confidence. Framebridge founder and CEO Susan Tynan built that confidence by sweating the details, building out a new factory, and launching two brick-and-mortar locations.

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Sarah Paiji Yoo, Blueland: Changing Consumer Behavior – Well Made E97

Blueland is taking the refill model and dehydrating it. Founder and CEO Sarah Paiji Yoo takes us behind the scenes of Blueland's busy first year, the struggles to find a manufacturer for their cleaning tablets, and pitching on Shark Tank.

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Tony Konecny, YES PLZ: Stepping on All the Rakes – Well Made E92

After selling Tonx to Blue Bottle Coffee, Tony Konecny's new company Yes Plz is making delicious coffee more attainable.

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Zahir Dossa, Function of Beauty: Perfecting Personalization – Well Made E87

Hair care is getting personal — finally. We're talking with Function of Beauty's co-founder about the strategy behind their hundreds of bottling iterations and trillions of product combinations.

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Aishwarya Iyer, Brightland: Chasing the Sun – Well Made E86

Aishwarya Iyer talks about founding Brightland to bring fresh, traceable olive oils to the table.

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Alex Matisse, East Fork: Kilning It – Well Made E82

Alex Matisse of East Fork talks about walking the line between small scale craft and large scale commercialism.

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Kerry Cooper, Rothy's: Turning All the Dimmers Up – Well Made E81

Rothy's burst into the shoe market with flats made from recycled water bottles in 2016. Three years later, Kerry Cooper, the President of Rothy's, talks about treading new ground with the overseas expansion of their sustainable slip-on.

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Kyle Hoff and Alex O'Dell, Floyd: Sitting is Timeless – Well Made E79

On sustainable furniture design with ready-to-assemble, flat-pack furniture company, Floyd.

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JT Marino, Tuft & Needle: Merging the Disruptor and Disrupted – Well Made E77

A talk with Tuft & Needle co-founder, JT Marino on waking up a sleepy industry and merging with their competitors to fundamentally transform consumer product brands.

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Paul Munford: Building on Greenfields – Well Made E70

LeanLuxe Editor-in-Chief, Paul Munford and Stephan Ango roundup the latest ecommerce news.

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Chris Carter and James Peisker, Porter Road: Breaking Up the Meat Monopoly – Well Made E69

Porter Road is bringing high-quality, traceable meats and poultry direct to consumer. Hear how the Nashville butchery went from catering business to VC-backed ecommerce company.

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Alex Friedman, LOLA: Learning the Value of Conversation – Well Made E58

LOLA co-CEO, Alex Friedman shares how transparency is encouraging candid conversations around periods, sex, and reproductive health.