Jim Osgood's guest appearances

Jim Osgood

Legally Sound Smart Business by Pasha Law PC

The NTM Growth Marketing Podcast

The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast

Klean Kanteen

LeBron James

Masami Sato

Ken Davenport

John McCrea

Phoebe Yu

Andy Keller

Les McKeown

Donald Sterling

Moe Carrick

Mariza Snyder

Ashley Madison

Tommy Sobel

Rand Fishkin

Vicki Saunders

OwlTail

See Full Show Notes Here: https://growensemble.com/klean-kanteen-jim-osgood Having built his own consulting business in Colorado, Jim Osgood received a phone call in late 2010 from a friend who offered him the opportunity to become CEO &amp; President of a company called Klean Kanteen, a family-run business who created reusable stainless steel water bottles as part of its mission to rid the world of single-use plastic. After months of interviews, he uprooted his family to California, knowing that the company’s values aligned deeply with his personal values.  On this episode of The Social Entrepreneurship &amp; Innovation Podcast, Jim discusses his transition to CEO of Klean Kanteen, the specifics of their strategic planning process, tips for growing and scaling your business, and his future aspirations for the company.

See Full Show Notes Here: <a href="https://growensemble.com/klean-kanteen-jim-osgood" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://growensemble.com/klean-kanteen-jim-osgood</a> Having built his own consulting business in Colorado, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-osgood-77914a1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jim Osgood</a> received a phone call in late 2010 from a friend who offered him the opportunity to become CEO &amp; President of a company called <a href="http://kleankanteen.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Klean Kanteen</a>, a family-run business who created reusable stainless steel water bottles as part of its mission to rid the world of single-use plastic. After months of interviews, he uprooted his family to California, knowing that the company’s values aligned deeply with his personal values. On this episode of The Social Entrepreneurship &amp; Innovation Podcast, Jim discusses his transition to CEO of Klean Kanteen, the specifics of their strategic planning process, tips for growing and scaling your business, and his future aspirations for the company.

#38 - Strategically Planning to Rid the World of Single-Use Plastic, with Jim Osgood CEO of Klean Kanteen

Creating the first stainless steel, BPA-free, reusable water bottle in 2004, Klean Kanteen had the vision to create a non-toxic solution to single-use plastic water bottles. Jim Osgood, the CEO of this certified B corporation, shares more about how Klean Kanteen is creating the highest quality reusable products on the planet and how they are also involved in benefiting their communities as well. As a company, they donate product to local organizations and schools to use in events and the Klean Kanteen staff is given 24 hours of volunteer time annually to support diverse nonprofits in their community. Join in on today’s discussion about what we can do today to inspire change that makes the world a better, cleaner place with Klean Kanteen. - - - - - For more information on Klean Kanteen, visit: www.kleankanteen.com

Creating the first stainless steel, BPA-free, reusable water bottle in 2004, Klean Kanteen had the vision to create a non-toxic solution to single-use plastic water bottles. Jim Osgood, the CEO of this certified B corporation, shares more about how Klean Kanteen is creating the highest quality reusable products on the planet and how they are also involved in benefiting their communities as well. As a company, they donate product to local organizations and schools to use in events and the Klean Kanteen staff is given 24 hours of volunteer time annually to support diverse nonprofits in their community. Join in on today’s discussion about what we can do today to inspire change that makes the world a better, cleaner place with Klean Kanteen. - - - - - For more information on Klean Kanteen, visit: <a href="http://www.kleankanteen.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.kleankanteen.com</a>

SFH #53: Replacing Single-Use Waste to Create Solutions for Social Change with Jim Osgood, CEO of Klean Kanteen

The guys welcome the CEO of Klean Kanteen, Jim Osgood, to discuss why his company decided to become B Corp certified and the positive effects the certification has had.  Jim also provides his perspective on the question, "One of our employees does great work and isn't breaking any office rules, but we have noticed he is posting very questionable content on his social media. Can we fire him for this since he lists us as his employer on his profiles?"Full Podcast TranscriptNASIR: Welcome to Legally Sound Smart Business.This is Nasir Pasha.MATT: And this is Matt Staub.NASIR: Welcome to our podcast. This is where we cover business news and add our legal twist and also answer some of your business legal questions that you, the listener, can send in to ask@legallysoundsmartbusiness.com.As I’ve said before, soon to be dot-pizza. I’ve looked it up and it is definitely coming – just not yet – TBD.MATT: I’m glad you took my advice from the last episode and varied your intro. It did sound a little bit different so I do appreciate that.NASIR: Okay, that’s good.What do we have to the start of the show here today, Ji—Matt? I called you Jim which, of course, is the name of our guest.MATT: Well, now you ruined the surprise.NASIR: I know. I messed up.MATT: So, in the last – I was going to say “couple of months” but, really, all of this year and some of the last year, there’s been a lot of people that I know have approached me or contacted us and asked about wanting to start a company but wanting some social good behind it, too. I think a lot of people do some preliminary searching and stumble across this B Corp idea. They might not know a lot about it but that’s typically a lot of the phone calls or contacts that I get is people saying, “Hey, I want to start this company, I want to do something good, not just be all about making money. How about this B Corp idea?” It is a cool idea and not every state currently allows it but it is out there for a good chunk of states. I think almost half of them now. In California, it’s still relatively new as well.NASIR: Yeah, I think California has been around for probably four or five years, I want to say, but I’m lind of guessing there. I know it’s been a little bit of time and I know Delaware now has it, too. So, some of the more important states for these corporations are there.But let me just break down here. Benefit Corporations – or I should say “B Corps” – is a legal status. It kind of depends. Colloquially, they’re used kind of synonymously but it can mean different things. But, basically, that kind of legal status, basically, it’s a for-profit corporation but the difference is that the shareholders can hold the company accountable differently in a sense that, in a for-profit corporation, the board of directors and their officers have to take the best interest of the company by making as much profit as possible. But, whereas, in a benefit corporation, they could also choose to add on a public benefit as a standard of their success, so to speak.And so, they’re not held to the same kind of fiduciary duty as they would other companies to their shareholders. But then, on top of that, there’s this whole benefit corporation certification that a third-party, I think there’s at least one, I think there might be another main out there that goes through this process.And so, to kind of get a better idea of how this works, we brought in Jim Osgood, he’s from Klean Kanteen.Welcome to the program!JIM: Great to be here, guys. Thanks for inviting us!NASIR: Absolutely. Klean Kanteen is a B Corporation, certified by B Labs, correct?JIM: That is correct. We were certified in October of 2012 and we are also, since that time, a registered benefit corporation of California.NASIR: Very cool.So, just to define that, your legal status as a benefit corporation in California but then you’ve been certified by B Labs, is that correct?JIM: That is correct.

The guys welcome the CEO of Klean Kanteen, Jim Osgood, to discuss why his company decided to become B Corp certified and the positive effects the certification has had. Jim also provides his perspective on the question, "One of our employees does great work and isn't breaking any office rules, but we have noticed he is posting very questionable content on his social media. Can we fire him for this since he lists us as his employer on his profiles?" Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Welcome to Legally Sound Smart Business. This is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And this is Matt Staub. NASIR: Welcome to our podcast. This is where we cover business news and add our legal twist and also answer some of your business legal questions that you, the listener, can send in to ask@legallysoundsmartbusiness.com. As I’ve said before, soon to be dot-pizza. I’ve looked it up and it is definitely coming – just not yet – TBD. MATT: I’m glad you took my advice from the last episode and varied your intro. It did sound a little bit different so I do appreciate that. NASIR: Okay, that’s good. What do we have to the start of the show here today, Ji—Matt? I called you Jim which, of course, is the name of our guest. MATT: Well, now you ruined the surprise. NASIR: I know. I messed up. MATT: So, in the last – I was going to say “couple of months” but, really, all of this year and some of the last year, there’s been a lot of people that I know have approached me or contacted us and asked about wanting to start a company but wanting some social good behind it, too. I think a lot of people do some preliminary searching and stumble across this B Corp idea. They might not know a lot about it but that’s typically a lot of the phone calls or contacts that I get is people saying, “Hey, I want to start this company, I want to do something good, not just be all about making money. How about this B Corp idea?” It is a cool idea and not every state currently allows it but it is out there for a good chunk of states. I think almost half of them now. In California, it’s still relatively new as well. NASIR: Yeah, I think California has been around for probably four or five years, I want to say, but I’m lind of guessing there. I know it’s been a little bit of time and I know Delaware now has it, too. So, some of the more important states for these corporations are there. But let me just break down here. Benefit Corporations – or I should say “B Corps” – is a legal status. It kind of depends. Colloquially, they’re used kind of synonymously but it can mean different things. But, basically, that kind of legal status, basically, it’s a for-profit corporation but the difference is that the shareholders can hold the company accountable differently in a sense that, in a for-profit corporation, the board of directors and their officers have to take the best interest of the company by making as much profit as possible. But, whereas, in a benefit corporation, they could also choose to add on a public benefit as a standard of their success, so to speak. And so, they’re not held to the same kind of fiduciary duty as they would other companies to their shareholders. But then, on top of that, there’s this whole benefit corporation certification that a third-party, I think there’s at least one, I think there might be another main out there that goes through this process. And so, to kind of get a better idea of how this works, we brought in Jim Osgood, he’s from Klean Kanteen. Welcome to the program! JIM: Great to be here, guys. Thanks for inviting us! NASIR: Absolutely. Klean Kanteen is a B Corporation, certified by B Labs, correct? JIM: That is correct. We were certified in October of 2012 and we are also, since that time, a registered benefit corporation of California. NASIR: Very cool. So, just to define that, your legal status as a benefit corporation in California but then you’ve been certified by B Labs, is that correct? JIM: That is correct.

Ep 59: The Importance of B Corp’s with Jim Osgood of Klean Kanteen