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Amir Tehrani and the business of making room
Before Our Place, Amir Tehrani helped entrepreneurs find capital, customers, and a hearing at City Hall. The cookware company brings that work closer to home - to a table where more than one tradition can belong.
Jordan Nathan Put the Cookware Cabinet on the Business Plan
A scorched pan supplied the question. Consumer psychology, one failed startup and 200 hurried product launches supplied the answer: slow down, design the whole experience and make even storage earn its place.
Eunice Byun
Eunice Byun is the co-founder and CEO of Material, the New York-based direct-to-consumer kitchenware brand she launched in 2018 with Dave Nguyen. A Goldman Sachs alum who spent a decade in finance and beauty before leaving a VP role at Revlon, she grew up in her family's Korean restaurant in San Diego and built Material around the belief that the everyday kitchen deserves fewer, better, more beautiful tools. Under her leadership Material has grown through word-of-mouth loyalty, landed in Nordstrom nationwide, and donated nearly $200,000 to community food causes through its Kinder Kitchens campaign.
Shiza Shahid
Shiza Shahid is a Pakistani-American entrepreneur, investor, and activist. She co-founded the Malala Fund with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and served as its founding CEO, then went on to co-found and co-lead Our Place, the cookware brand behind the viral Always Pan. She also founded NOW Ventures, an early-stage fund backing mission-driven founders. Her work braids together social impact, immigrant identity, and the everyday ritual of cooking.