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Abhi Ramesh and the Second Life of an Apple
He began with unwanted apples, a homemade website and a rented van. Eight years later, the real product is a national machine for giving perishable food somewhere useful to go.
Kyle Hoff Built Floyd From One Leg - Then Designed It to Stay
An architect, a Craigslist apartment and a refusal to buy one more disposable table produced a $256,000 Kickstarter. A decade and an acquisition later, Hoff is still asking the same useful question: will this piece survive the next move?
Lana Elie Built Floom by Letting Florists Keep Their Point of View
A bad bouquet exposed a good business: give independent florists better tools, preserve their taste, and make the internet feel a little less generic.
Jaclyn Fu
Jaclyn Fu is the co-founder and co-CEO of Pepper, the direct-to-consumer bra brand built for small-chested women that grew from a Kickstarter funded in 10 hours into an eight-figure company that has sold more than one million bras. A UC Berkeley graduate and former product marketer at Mozilla, Etsy and Conversocial, she turned four words scribbled on a road trip - 'bras for Asian Americans' - into a movement to redefine how small chests are seen. She and co-founder Lia Winograd landed on Forbes' 2020 30 Under 30 list for Retail & Commerce.