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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Vicky Hausman: Trading the Corporate World for Political Entrepreneurship to Fight For Your Beliefs
Forward Majority’s Vicky Hausman leverages her organizational knowledge to heal our democratic process. See our discussion on this week’s FOMO Sapiens, available now!