Title :- The Consumer VC: Venture Capital I B2C Startups I Commerce | Early-Stage Investing I Brands
Release Date :- 2025-05-15
Artist Name :- Mike Gelb
Genre Name :- Entrepreneurship
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From Surviving a Plane Crash to Building Baby Formula and Energy Drink Brands: Richard Lavar
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Don’t Raise VC Money Until You Hear This | Mike Gelb with Shamin Walsh | Consumer VC
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How Ithaca Hummus Scaled to $50M Without Venture Capital? Mike Gelb with Chris Kirby | Consumer VC
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Are You Building for the Right Reasons — or Just Because the Category Is Hot? Should there be a Better Business Bureau for VCs? w/ Sid Banthiya
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The Future of Restaurant-Tech: Inside EMERGING’s $100M Fund with Mathew Focht
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Will AI Screw IP Holders, Content Getting Better or Worse, and The Future of Journalism with Ishan Sinha, Partner at Point72 Ventures
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Selling Shorter Shorts to a Successful Exit, The Story of Chubbies with Preston Rutherford
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The Fusion of Innovation and Leadership with YuChiang Cheng
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Why The Supplement Industry Is Broken and How Momentous Plans to Fix It with Jeff Byers
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Why Invest in CPG and Tech? Expected Returns and Red Antler's VC Journey with Daniel Faierman, Partner at Habitat Partners
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Is AI the Sole Future of Consumer Tech, What's Missing in Social & Will Glasses Be The Consumer Platform with Bryan Kim, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
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How Choosing the Best Food for Your Dog Can Add Years to Their Life & The Problem with The Legacy Pet Food Market with Terri Rockovich, Co-Founder & CEO of Jinx
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How He Went From the Music Industry to VC, Investing in Tech vs. Brands, and When Down Rounds Make Sense with Jon Keidan
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The Future of Gaming: Game Economies, New Business Models, Gamification, Blockchain Technology & AI Innovation with Brian Cho, Co-Founder of Patron
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The Evolution of Premium Products in Mainstream Retail with Marcel Bens, CEO of Emil Capital Partners
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When to Invest in Consumer Technology with Vanessa Larco at NEA
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Turning Science into Consumer Brands with Osman Khan, CEO of Squared Circles
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Investing in the Future of Healthy Living with Abby Miller Levy, Managing Partner and Founder at Primetime Partners
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How They Built a Direct-to-Consumer Baby Food Brand and Scaled to Selling Millions of Products Each Month with Angela Vranich and Ben Lewis From Little Spoon
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Future of Food Tech, Can A Retail Model Like Foxtrot Work at Scale, and Channel Strategy for Food Brands with Ashley Hartman and Andrew Bluestein @ Bluestein Ventures
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Unlocking the Potential of Beauty and Personal Care Brands With Manica Blain
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The New Types of Acquirers in Health & Wellness, Different Parts Of The Term Sheet That Could Make a Difference In The Exit, and How Deals Get Done with Teddie Townsend from CG Sawaya Partners
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The Fusion of Past & Future Shopping Experiences, Insights from Brand Capital Fund's Consumer VC Benchmarks Report with Diana Melencio at XRC Ventures
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What Consumers Care About in Health & Wellness Products, How Competition Builds New Categories, and Will Ozempic Have an Impact on CPG Demand? with Dayton Miller, BFG Partners
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Live from SXSW: George Milton and Erin Link – How They Founded Yellowbird Sauce
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What Gives a Brand Acquisition Energy with Amrit Richmond
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He Worked with JAY-Z, Was an Olympian, and Now Runs a VC with Samyr Lainé, Founder of Freedom Trail Capital
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How He Built A Business Off a Fruit Peel, The Shocking Moment of Getting into Retail, and How One Chat Changed His Trajectory with Matt Weiss Founder & CEO at Rind Snacks
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Selling Group Nine Media, The Evolution of New York's Startup Scene and The Future of Digital Media with Ben Lerer, Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau
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How He Buys Multi-Million Dollar Brands with Fan Bi, Founder/CEO of The Hedgehog Company
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What is a Cult Brand? With Sarah Woelfel, Co-Founder & Partner at Cult Capital
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How She's Adding The Belgian Waffle To The American Diet...and 8,400+ stores with Anouck Gotlib, CEO of Belgian Boys
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Selling 10 Million Soup Dumplings and Counting: The Story of MìLà with Caleb Wang
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Why This Venture Studio Backed By VF Corp is Investing in Consumer Tech with David Wagner and Jesse Marble, Co-Founders of Wildwood Ventures
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When Can A Celebrity-Led Brand Work with Denise Lambertson from Constellation Capital and LMS
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FinTech: What's Real and What's a Scam with Drew Glover, General Partner of Fiat Ventures
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Breaking Boundaries in Broadway: The TodayTix Story with Brian Fenty
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Will There Be Cities With No Cars? What is The Future of Urban Transportation? The Difference Between U.S. and European Markets with Martin Mignot from Index Ventures
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Transforming the Mexican Food Aisle: Miguel Leal's Journey with SOMOS Foods
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Why He Invested In Liquid Death, Dollar Shave Club, and a Breakdown of the Venture Studio Model with Mike Jones, Co-Founder of Science Inc.
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How She Built a $100 million CPG Brand in Three Years Selling Cauliflower Pizzas with Gail Becker, Founder of CAULIPOWER
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Decoding the Future of Media and Commerce with Kevin Parakkattu at Plug and Play
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How To Invest in Misunderstood & Highly Regulated Markets with Helene Servillon from JourneyOne Ventures
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Matt Alexander (Neighorhood Goods) - How They Are Reimaging The Department Store
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Nigel Eccles (Vault) - How He’s Helping Artists Monetize Their Music, Fandom in the Digital Age and Lessons from Creating FanDuel
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Kiva Dickinson & Madeline Kaplan (Selva Ventures) - Raising $34 Million Fund 2, Opportunities in Beauty & Personal Care, And The Value of $1 in Revenue Online vs. In Retail
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Rakesh Narayana (Access VC) - How They Are Changing The Image of Corporate Venture Capital, and How They Evaluate Opportunities From an Exit Potential
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Andrew Blackmon (The Black Tux) - How He Approaches Standardization, Customization and Scale Running a Tuxedo Rental Business
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Melissa Facchina (Siddhi Capital) - Can You Be A Great Entrepreneur But Not A Great Operator, Why She’s Not Investing In Beverage Companies, Her Way of Scaling and more
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Chaz Flexman (Starday Foods) - How He's Building The Next Food Conglomerate With Data Science
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Mike Salguero (ButcherBox)- How He Bootstrapped ButcherBox to $600 million, Why He Didn't Take Any VC Money, And Lessons From Raising Money at CustomMade
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Jessica Karr (Coyote Ventures) - How She Went From Scientist to Investor, The Opportunity in Women’s Health, and Why She Doesn’t Invest in Beauty & Personal Care
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Mike Ghaffary (Canvas Ventures) - Could AI Be The Next Consumer Platform After The iPhone?
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When You Start, Scale, Sell and Then Buy Back Your Business From Hershey And Coca Cola with Jon Sebastiani (Krave Jerky) and Mark Rampolla (Zico)
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Elle Lanning (Camino Partners) - What KIND Snacks Got Right, What Differentiation is in CPG, and How to Back The Right Founders
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Bruce Smith (Hydrow) - Why He Believes Rowers Could Overtake Bikes, The State of Connected Fitness, and How Kevin Hart Became Their Creative Director
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Ken Sadowsky (Verlinvest) - What He Saw In VIta Coco and Vitamin Water Early, Beverage Trends He's Bearish On and How to Evaluate Entrepreneurs
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Deepak Shahdadpuri (DSG Consumer Partners) - Why India is Ripe for Premium Consumer Brands, How to Localize Brands, and Trends In India and South East Asia
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Will Nitze (IQ Bar) - How He Leveraged Harvard and Growth Hacked Indie Gogo, Why He Entered Conventional Grocery Over the Natural Channel, and Brain Food Explained
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Mark Samuel (IWON Organics) - Why His Entrepreneurial Journey Led Him to CPG, What’s Difficult About Scaling a Health Brand, Approach To New Sales Channels and Media
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Dario Wolos (Tacombi & Vista Hermosa) - Why he Started Selling Tacos Out of a VW bus in Mexico, How He Expanded to a Chain of Taquerias in New York, and Why His Mission Is To Bring Authentic Mexican Food to the World
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Live from Austin: Allison and Stephen Ellsworth (Poppi) - How They Became The #1 Soda Brand on Amazon, Pivot During COVID and How They Approach Brand
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David Friedberg (The Production Board) - What The Next Generation of Brands Look Like, How to Analyze Entrepreneurs, and What He’d Change About The All-In Podcast
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Mike Fata (Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods) - How He Founded a 9-figure Hemp Brand
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Carle Stenmark (VMG) - Why a consumer PE firm also has a $400m technology fund, the evolution of his thesis, and why VMG rebranded
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Kyle Cooke (Loverboy) - How he started a $38m alcohol brand while on a Reality TV, His journey as an entrepreneur and why Loverboy worked vs. his other ideas
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Marc Washington (Supergut) - Why better health starts with the gut, What is the gut microbiome and His innovation within CPG
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Steve Berg (Stride Consumer Partners) - How to invest in consumer companies at the growth stage, what types of brands work in both natural and conventional, and how to analyze retail outlets
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Joey Guerra and Alex Dashefsky (Airsign) - Why the vacuum cleaner needed innovation, brand positioning, and their approach to organic marketing
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Mateo Marietti (CookUnity) - How he’s changing the food delivery experience for daily meals, how he works with the top chefs in the world, and growth during the pandemic
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Anthony Zhang (Vinovest) - What makes wine a profitable investible asset, How he recovered from a spinal injury that left him paralyzed while guiding his company to a successful exit, and other alternative investment markets
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James Currier (NFX) - How generative A.I. changes the internet, Will startups be able to capture the value, and Will OpenAI succeed
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Adam Ross (Heyday) - Why he found a facial retail chain, franchise models vs. corporate stores, and producing products
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Ryan Woodbury (Needed) - How she's building a bundled DTC subscription business with prenatal products, why it took 3 years of R&D research before launching and her fundraising philosophy
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Lydia Jett (SoftBank) - How she invests in eCommerce at a global scale, How to evaluate emerging markets, and Learnings from 2022
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Aimy Steadman (BeatBox) - How she created a drink for music festivals, fundraising on SharkTank and how a change in product packaging was an unlock to scale
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Wyatt Taubman (Vive Organic) - How he discovered immunity shots, the learning curves building a CPG brand and why they sold to Suja Juice
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Yanni Hufnagel (Lemon Perfect) - Why He Left Basketball To Founding a Lemon Water Company, Getting Beyoncé to Invest, and How He Scaled Distribution Nationally
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Elly Truesdell (New Fare Partners) - How she started a cat food brand with Bobby Flay, Going from Whole Foods to launching VC fund, When brands should vertically integrate
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Annie Kadavy (RedPoint Ventures) – How she invested in Patreon, Classpass and DoorDash, What Are Investible business models, and Lessons Learned as a Founder
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Chris Ashenden (Athletic Greens) - How he founded a billion dollar nutrition brand, why he waited until $150m in sales to raise capital, and creating a new consumer habit
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Davis Smith (Cotopaxi) - Why he started a mission-led outdoor apparel brand, the difference between Cotopaxi and Patagonia, and lessons learned from his first two businesses
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Matt Higgins (RSE Ventures) - How he became a Shark on SharkTank, Why he invested in Gary Vee, and the future of Direct to Consumer
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Josh Cliffords (FreeWater) - How He Found a New Business Model for Bottled Water
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Sean Riley (DUDE Wipes) - How he went from $0 to $90 million in sales selling flushable wipes, Getting Mark Cuban to Invest on SharkTank and Why he chose bootstrapping
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Holiday Highlights: Ty Haney (Outdoor Voices, Joggy, TYB)
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Holiday Highlights: Chuck Newhall (NEA)
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Holiday Highlights: Steve Case (AOL.com, Revolution, Rise of the Rest)
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