
How One Founder Took on the Gray Hair Industry and Won With Science, Not Hype
Arey founder Allison Conrad turned an overlooked beauty category into a science-backed business, with a clinical study to prove it. Hear how she built a defensible brand, from securing a patent to map...
21 Touko 40min

The Sleep Brand Founders That Refused To Rest Until the Product Was Perfect
Kevin and Jin Chon cut open a pillow, found carpet padding inside, and spent 13 years fixing it. They built Coop Sleep Goods into a nearly nine-figure brand by spending more on materials, staying focu...
19 Touko 27min

The Scrappy Outreach Strategy Behind Candier's $14 Million Retail Empire
Krysten Kauder built Candier—a bold, irreverent candle brand with names like “Girl, You Need to Calm the F Down”—into a $14 million business stocked at Target, Whole Foods, and Ulta, and she did it wi...
14 Touko 36min

How an AI Expert Built the Most Analog Product of 2026
Before the screen-time backlash hit the mainstream, Cat Goetze was already building an analog antidote. Her brand Physical Phones—Bluetooth landlines designed to replace smartphone habits—generated $8...
12 Touko 50min

Why This $5 Million Skin Care CEO Chooses Reddit Over Influencers
She built Virtue Labs into a $50M+ hair care brand. Now Melisse Shaban is CEO of Aramore — a biotech skincare company backed by peer-reviewed NAD+ research — and she's throwing out the beauty playbook...
7 Touko 38min

The Wellness Brand That Turned TikTok Flops Into an 8-Figure Business
The founders of Feel Goods built an eight-figure supplement brand with 100 million organic impressions and not a single product on a retail shelf. Their secret was radical transparency, founder-led co...
5 Touko 36min

How 12 Founders Are Using AI To Get Ahead
Twelve founders building on Shopify reveal exactly how they’re using AI right now—the tools, the tactics, and where to draw the line. Here’s the playbook being written in real time by the founders of ...
30 Huhti 27min




















