Guests

Jake DeLeon is the founder and CEO of Fila Manila, a company crafting award-winning Filipino-inspired sauces and spreads. A former Starbucks executive, he launched the brand in 2020 and later secured a Shark Tank investment.

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Ryan Burkhardt is the co-founder and co-owner of Kong Screen Printing, an Austin-based custom apparel company he started with Bruce Braden in 2011. With an MFA in fine arts, he built the business around a concierge-level customer service model serving brands like Coca-Cola and Topo Chico.

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Tariq Farid is the Founder of Edible Arrangements, the fruit arrangement franchise with 1,200+ stores worldwide. A Pakistani-American entrepreneur, he started his first business at 17 and grew Edible Arrangements into a global brand. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009.

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Natalie Gordon is the founder and CEO of Babylist, the leading universal baby registry. A former software engineer for Amazon, she launched Babylist in 2011 to simplify baby shopping. Based in Oakland, California, she leads the company.

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Breelyn Vanleeuwen, a physician assistant and mom of four, founded Daily Shade Sunscreen after 15 years in medicine. She spent four years developing a 100% non-nano zinc oxide formula that's reef-safe and ghost-face free.

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Niraj Shah is the co-founder, co-chairman, and CEO of Wayfair, the leading online retailer for home goods and furnishings. He launched the company in 2002 with Steve Conine, building it into a dominant e-commerce force by combining technology with a customer-first retail mindset.

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Tess Milholland founded HerHouse to create safe, free accommodations for solo women travelers after her own backpacking journey revealed the risks. A published author of Sherbet Skies, she lives near San Antonio with her family.

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Valerie Zweig is a chicken soup entrepreneur who co-founded Cookstix, Prescription Chicken, and Chix Soup Co. Based in Washington, DC, she turned a search for soup during illness into a thriving food business, creating instant chicken stock powders with bold flavors.

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Jeffrey Braverman is the CEO of Nuts.com, a family-owned nut and snack retailer founded by his grandfather "Poppy Sol" in 1929. Braverman left a career at Blackstone to transform the Newark nut shop into a national direct-to-consumer brand, and was an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2014.

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Alan Somerfield founded ShowerSpaah, a UK company that invented a shower system mixing soap and water on demand. He created it to help his mum with mobility challenges. With 35 years of product design experience, including the Stoplock steering wheel lock, Somerfield solves real problems.

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John Zimmer is the co-founder and former president of Lyft, the on-demand transportation company he launched with Logan Green in 2012. A Cornell University graduate, Zimmer stepped down as president in June 2023 to become vice-chair of the board, continuing to shape urban mobility.

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Kobe Goodwin co-founded Slow Coco, a craft chocolate company making single-origin, minimal-ingredient bars with ethical sourcing. He started the business with his sister Tovia from the Bronx, NYC.

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