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The Startup CPG Podcast

A podcast from Startup CPG - highlighting stories from founders working towards a better food system and industry insights from experts to give you a better chance at success.

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#103 Reimagining Multivitamins: Tend's Real Food Supplements for Pregnancy and Beyond with Co-Founders Hannah & Behzad Varamini

#103 Reimagining Multivitamins: Tend's Real Food Supplements for Pregnancy and Beyond with Co-Founders Hannah & Behzad Varamini

Today’s guests are active members of the Startup CPG community and were a crowd favorite Backpack Brand at Startup CPG’s... Read more

15 Aug 2023

44mins

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#102 Beyond the Certificate: How to Navigate Insurance Related to Fundraising and Inventory with Amelia Risk

#102 Beyond the Certificate: How to Navigate Insurance Related to Fundraising and Inventory with Amelia Risk

I don’t always love talking about insurance, but I love talking about insurance with today’s guest, Danielle Holyoake, b... Read more

8 Aug 2023

52mins

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#101 Celebrating 10 Years of Growth: Family, Foodservice, and Forging your Own Path with Soom's Amy Zitelman

#101 Celebrating 10 Years of Growth: Family, Foodservice, and Forging your Own Path with Soom's Amy Zitelman

Making it to the 10 year mark as a food business is no small feat, and our friends at Soom Foods just passed their 10 ye... Read more

1 Aug 2023

56mins

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#100 Toasting to 100 Episodes of The Startup CPG Podcast with Our Favorite Moments

#100 Toasting to 100 Episodes of The Startup CPG Podcast with Our Favorite Moments

Today’s episode is a celebration. A celebration of 100 episodes of The Startup CPG Podcast! Can you believe it? If you’v... Read more

25 Jul 2023

44mins

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#99 Navigating the Foodservice Landscape: Key Players and Their Roles (Distributors, Buying Groups, Operators, & more)

#99 Navigating the Foodservice Landscape: Key Players and Their Roles (Distributors, Buying Groups, Operators, & more)

I’m so excited to bring back a very popular guest from last year, Jenna Cameron, for another foodservice episode! We rel... Read more

18 Jul 2023

54mins

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#98 Reimagining Grocery Shopping: Instacart's AI-Powered Future with ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence

#98 Reimagining Grocery Shopping: Instacart's AI-Powered Future with ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence

We’re hearing a lot about AI, artificial intelligence these days, especially with the release to the public of Chat GPT,... Read more

11 Jul 2023

1hr

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#97 Co-Packing 101: Tapping into a Motherlode of Co-Packing Wisdom

#97 Co-Packing 101: Tapping into a Motherlode of Co-Packing Wisdom

One of the hottest topics in our Slack community is brands looking for the right co-packer, and since this is something ... Read more

4 Jul 2023

56mins

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#96 How to Understand the Unit Economics of a CPG Company with Graphite Financial

#96 How to Understand the Unit Economics of a CPG Company with Graphite Financial

If you are in the Startup CPG Slack #finance channel, you’ll regularly see tons of questions about projections, cash flo... Read more

27 Jun 2023

56mins

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#95 GT Dave - Founder & CEO of GT’s Living Foods: 25+ years of building the kombucha industry one batch at a time

#95 GT Dave - Founder & CEO of GT’s Living Foods: 25+ years of building the kombucha industry one batch at a time

I don’t usually like to play favorites, but this week’s episode is a really special interview, especially for me persona... Read more

20 Jun 2023

1hr 23mins

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#94 Buyer Series: Fostering good buyer vibes with Wade Yenny & Alex Bayer

#94 Buyer Series: Fostering good buyer vibes with Wade Yenny & Alex Bayer

If you are in the CPG industry and active on LinkedIn, chances are you are familiar with the dynamic duo, Alex Bayer and... Read more

13 Jun 2023

55mins

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