Matt Scanlan walked into Mongolia with $2.5M in cash and almost no plan besides buying cashmere directly from the herders scattered across the countryside. He chronicled his month-long stay in the Mongolian desert in a video that made his startup, Naadam, explode onto the world stage. Today, Naadam is disrupting the billion-dollar cashmere industry by dealing directly with the herders and producers of cashmere wool to keep cashmere sustainable, equitable, and humane.
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Rip Van Wafels’ Rip Pruisken & Marco De Leon: Hungry for Success.
A startup that began in a Brown University dorm is now in every Starbucks of the country. Rip Van Wafels is hungry for success. On