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Hannah Freeman Put HR Software in the Strawberry Field
After 14 years listening to growers and farmworkers, Hannah Freeman saw a workplace-software market hiding in plain sight. Ganaz is her attempt to make the business of feeding people work better for the people doing it.
Ryan Black Bet 26 Years on a Berry America Couldn’t Pronounce
A surf trip supplied the idea. A phone book, a credit card and years of unglamorous supply-chain work made it travel.
Roberto Milk Built a Marketplace Where the Maker Keeps the Story
A Stanford dorm-room idea became a global experiment in fairer commerce. Roberto Milk’s enduring insight was simple: let artisans set the price, sign the work and remain visible in the sale.
Emily Stone
Emily Stone is the founder and CEO of Uncommon Cacao, the first specialty cacao trader to publish verifiable prices for every transaction along its supply chain. From a base that started in the jungles of Belize and Guatemala, she built a Transparent Trade model that sources from more than 10,000 smallholder farmers across 15+ countries and supplies hundreds of craft chocolate makers worldwide. An Ashoka Fellow and Georgetown-trained sociologist, she is trying to decommoditize cacao by making farmers the protagonists of the chain rather than its afterthought.