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Dan Wexler and the distance to dinner
Before EatWell had a box to sell, Dan Wexler had a map of Boston and questions for the people living on it. Their answers shaped a business built around familiar flavors, nearby pickup, and one pot.
Joe Girard and the school that escaped its box
Before Rouxbe taught a million students, Joe Girard and Dawn Thomas had a kitchen gadget to sell. The gadget fell away. Their idea of teaching people to cook kept finding new places to go.
Gary Apito
Gary Apito is the Chief Executive Officer of Rouxbe, the online culinary school that has trained more than one million students across 180 countries. A career culinary-education operator, he spent seventeen years helping build the French Culinary Institute and International Culinary Center in New York before moving into online learning, joining Rouxbe in 2016 and rising from VP of Operations to COO to CEO. His focus is scaling professional-grade cooking instruction through high-definition video as traditional brick-and-mortar culinary schools close worldwide.