Tessa Cook's guest appearances

Tessa Cook

Desert Island Dishes

SIIMcast

Impact Hustlers - Entrepreneurs with Social Impact

Creative Forces Podcast with Guy Kilty

Dolly Alderton

Lauren Currie

James Martin

Nick Taylor

Alison Roman

Emma Kennedy

Jo Elvin

Angela Scanlon

Gizzi Erskine

Jo Malone

Clemmie Hooper

Yancey Strickler

John Nicholson

Leah Garcés

Deliciously Stella

OwlTail

Tessa Cook is the co-founder of OLIO, the smartphone app which connects neighbours and local businesses so they can share surplus food rather than throwing it away, and since its launch in North London in 2015 it’s now being used by hundreds of thousands of users in more than 30 countries. After leaving the family farm in North Yorkshire Tessa went on to study at Cambridge and Stanford and enjoy a successful career in business which included stints at the publishing group Emap and the technology pioneer Dyson. In this episode Tessa explains how she learnt a lot about entrepreneurship by watching the way her parents worked, how she suffered from ‘impostor syndrome’ at Stanford, and how she worked on a number of different company ideas before experiencing the lightbulb moment that led to the creation of Olio.

<a href="https://twitter.com/TessaLFClarke" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Tessa Cook</a> is the co-founder of <a href="https://olioex.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">OLIO</a>, the smartphone app which connects neighbours and local businesses so they can share surplus food rather than throwing it away, and since its launch in North London in 2015 it’s now being used by hundreds of thousands of users in more than 30 countries. After leaving the family farm in North Yorkshire Tessa went on to study at Cambridge and Stanford and enjoy a successful career in business which included stints at the publishing group Emap and the technology pioneer Dyson. In this episode Tessa explains how she learnt a lot about entrepreneurship by watching the way her parents worked, how she suffered from ‘impostor syndrome’ at Stanford, and how she worked on a number of different company ideas before experiencing the lightbulb moment that led to the creation of Olio.

CFP #7 – Tessa Cook

My guest today is Tessa CookTessa is the co founder of Olio the free food sharing app. Olio was launched back in February 2015 by Tessa and her co founder Sasha Celestial-One. The two founders met at business school in California. They launched the app just a few months after having the idea and gave themselves a year to make it work agreeing that if it hadn’t taken off by then they would go back to their day jobs.Tessa is a farmer’s daughter and grew up on farm where she learnt the value of food from a very young age and became passionate about food waste. Before launching Olio, Tessa worked in various managing director roles across retail, media and the financial services.The idea for Olio came to her in a moment of inspiration and was a genuine lightbulb moment. One of those moments most people only dream of, where the idea seems so obvious you cant believe it hasn’t been done before. After teaming up with her business partner Saasha, the two wasted very little time and launched the app just 4 months later. Fast forward 2 ½ years and they now have 330,000 people using their app and over 15,000 volunteers helping them with their mission.I think this is a really inspiring listen and you cant fail to learn something from Tessa’s story.  She recommend the book, “The Lean StartUp” by Eric Ries which I can recommend too and there are some great podcast recommendations in there for entrepreneurs, including one of my favbourites, “How I Built This” with Guy Raz. I love the Tessa talked of bubble and squeak, which is no where near as popular as it should be, and such a good dish when you are doing a fridge raid but still want something warming and delicious. Her triple choice of sandwiches was right up my street. A chip buttie, a bacon butie and a boiled egg sandwich…it doesn’t get more British than that! I love that Tessa cooked for all the guests at her wedding. Such a lovely thing to do -  I wonder if I should attempt that too?? She made a delicious veggie filled lasagne and a really great sounding lime and ginger cheesecake which sounded easy and delicious: a winning combination.I think it is Nigella Lawson’s mother who celebrated a second Christmas on Midsummer’s Eve and I think it’s the most lovely idea and one that I might actually adopt too. How fun would that be? Tessa seemed enamoured with the idea anyway as her final desert island dish was an easy one for her to make as she loves a traditional Christmas lunch. Very apt for this time of year, and we didn’t even plan that.What wasn’t quite so traditional was Tessa’s way of having Christmas pudding. She has it with brandy butter. So far, so traditional. Then she adds golden syrup which is unusual but I can definitely get on board with. Then! She tops that with a generous drizzle of white sauce. A white sauce made with butter and flour and milk….very unusual! I loved her idea of freezing the smoothies into lollies for the children (and for the adults) and adding greek yoghurt to the smoothies is a great shout. I am being honest when I say I don’t think I’ve met a bad smoothie which does make them rather fun to make as you know you can bung things in, use up left overs and it will taste great!Desert Island Dish: Full Christmas lunch – with all the trimmingsHomemade Christmas pudding with brandy butter, golden syrup and then white sauce (!)Luxury item: Collection of EncyclopediasHave you seen the recipe inspired by Tessa’s desert island dishes? Head to www.desertislanddishes.co for a full collection of delicious recipes.Thank you for listening, and subscribing. Don’t forget to leave a review as it gives me a little boost and I will see you same time next week for another episode of Desert Island Dishes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Tessa CookTessa is the co founder of Olio the free food sharing app. Olio was launched back in February 2015 by Tessa and her co founder Sasha Celestial-One. The two founders met at business school in California. They launched the app just a few months after having the idea and gave themselves a year to make it work agreeing that if it hadn’t taken off by then they would go back to their day jobs.Tessa is a farmer’s daughter and grew up on farm where she learnt the value of food from a very young age and became passionate about food waste. Before launching Olio, Tessa worked in various managing director roles across retail, media and the financial services.The idea for Olio came to her in a moment of inspiration and was a genuine lightbulb moment. One of those moments most people only dream of, where the idea seems so obvious you cant believe it hasn’t been done before. After teaming up with her business partner Saasha, the two wasted very little time and launched the app just 4 months later. Fast forward 2 ½ years and they now have 330,000 people using their app and over 15,000 volunteers helping them with their mission.I think this is a really inspiring listen and you cant fail to learn something from Tessa’s story. She recommend the book, “The Lean StartUp” by Eric Ries which I can recommend too and there are some great podcast recommendations in there for entrepreneurs, including one of my favbourites, “How I Built This” with Guy Raz. I love the Tessa talked of bubble and squeak, which is no where near as popular as it should be, and such a good dish when you are doing a fridge raid but still want something warming and delicious. Her triple choice of sandwiches was right up my street. A chip buttie, a bacon butie and a boiled egg sandwich…it doesn’t get more British than that! I love that Tessa cooked for all the guests at her wedding. Such a lovely thing to do - I wonder if I should attempt that too?? She made a delicious veggie filled lasagne and a really great sounding lime and ginger cheesecake which sounded easy and delicious: a winning combination.I think it is Nigella Lawson’s mother who celebrated a second Christmas on Midsummer’s Eve and I think it’s the most lovely idea and one that I might actually adopt too. How fun would that be? Tessa seemed enamoured with the idea anyway as her final desert island dish was an easy one for her to make as she loves a traditional Christmas lunch. Very apt for this time of year, and we didn’t even plan that.What wasn’t quite so traditional was Tessa’s way of having Christmas pudding. She has it with brandy butter. So far, so traditional. Then she adds golden syrup which is unusual but I can definitely get on board with. Then! She tops that with a generous drizzle of white sauce. A white sauce made with butter and flour and milk….very unusual! I loved her idea of freezing the smoothies into lollies for the children (and for the adults) and adding greek yoghurt to the smoothies is a great shout. I am being honest when I say I don’t think I’ve met a bad smoothie which does make them rather fun to make as you know you can bung things in, use up left overs and it will taste great!Desert Island Dish: Full Christmas lunch – with all the trimmingsHomemade Christmas pudding with brandy butter, golden syrup and then white sauce (!)Luxury item: Collection of EncyclopediasHave you seen the recipe inspired by Tessa’s desert island dishes? Head to <a href="http://www.desertislanddishes.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.desertislanddishes.co</a> for a full collection of delicious recipes.Thank you for listening, and subscribing. Don’t forget to leave a review as it gives me a little boost and I will see you same time next week for another episode of Desert Island Dishes. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Tessa Cook: Co founder of Olio: The Food Sharing App

In this episode, OLIO Co-founder &amp; CEO Tessa Cook tells the story of scaling her product to 250,000 users, raising investment from Accel Ventures &amp; the misconceptions about social startups.Support the show

In this episode, OLIO Co-founder &amp; CEO Tessa Cook tells the story of scaling her product to 250,000 users, raising investment from Accel Ventures &amp; the misconceptions about social startups.<a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/impacthustlers" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>

2: Tessa Cook of OLIO - Reducing Food Waste at Scale

In this episode, Dr. Sharma sits down with Dr. Tessa Cook as she discusses the National Imaging Informatics Curriculum and Course (NIIC), a new imaging informatics course designed for radiology residents. We also talk a bit about informatics education at large, as well as the options available for those interested in informatics fellowships. For more information, please visit http://bit.ly/informatics-NIIC. Dr. Cook can be reached at her Twitter profile, http://twitter.com/asset25.

In this episode, Dr. Sharma sits down with Dr. Tessa Cook as she discusses the National Imaging Informatics Curriculum and Course (NIIC), a new imaging informatics course designed for radiology residents. We also talk a bit about informatics education at large, as well as the options available for those interested in informatics fellowships. For more information, please visit <a href="http://bit.ly/informatics-NIIC" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/informatics-NIIC</a>. Dr. Cook can be reached at her Twitter profile, <a href="http://twitter.com/asset25" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/asset25</a>.