Guests

Dominic Wyndham-Giddens is Co-Owner and Director of Coffee at Wyndhams Coffee. He and wife Mandy opened a Barbados cafe in 2001. They launched the 2014 roastery to shake up the local scene. He created signature Rum Barrel Coffee to bring great coffee to Barbados.

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Peter Andrews, DipWSET, MBA, is a 15-year wine industry veteran. He founded California-based Culture Wine Co. in 2023, the only U.S. importer, wholesaler and e-comm retailer focused solely on South African wine. A San Francisco wine educator, he's appeared on podcasts covering South African wine ...

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Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH is CEO & Founder of Yobee Care, which develops scalp and skin microbiome therapeutics. A Northwestern professor of pediatrics and medicine, she is Founding Director of CFAAR. A pediatrician, she launched the startup to help her daughter and shared her entrepreneurial journey ...

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Susan Griffin-Black is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of EO Products, maker of the EO and Everyone personal care lines. An early clean beauty pioneer, she left a three-decade fashion design career to launch the brand with Brad Black, and has been featured on NPR’s How I Built This.

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Stephen Starr is the founder and chairman of STARR Restaurant Group, a Philadelphia hospitality company with more than 40 acclaimed restaurants. A former concert promoter for U2 and Madonna, he has won Outstanding Restaurateur awards from the James Beard Foundation and Bon Appétit.

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Andrew Graff is the founder of PlantAmika, a Laguna Beach-based company that makes pleasantly scented soil additives. He called into How I Built This seeking advice on fundraising timing for his early-stage startup.

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Daisy Jackson is the Sales & Marketing Director at Freet Barefoot, a UK-based barefoot shoe brand founded by her father Andrew Jackson. She joined the family business in 2025 after earning her degree from Oxford Brookes University.

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Rachel Kane is the co-founder and CEO of SprinkleBites, a company that makes protein-packed, sugar-free sprinkles for kids. She brings over 18 years of corporate experience to her role as a food entrepreneur.

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Shazi Visram is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, best known as the founder of Happy Family Organics. She launched the company from her NYC kitchen in 2006 and grew it into the #1 organic baby food brand in the U.S.

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Maxine Clark is the founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop, the make-your-own stuffed animal retail chain she launched in 1997 after a 20-year retail career. She grew the concept into a global brand generating billions in sales.

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Chloe is the founder of Cotton Clara, a UK-based company specializing in at-home crafting kits and supplies. She appeared as a caller on the How I Built This Advice Line episode 843.

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Christina Tosi is an award-winning pastry chef, cookbook author, and founder and CEO of Milk Bar, the innovative dessert brand redefining modern American baking. She has built Milk Bar into a national bakery empire with locations across the U.S. and Canada.

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