Matt Scanlan – Disruptive Fair Trade: How Naadam Is Getting the Cashmere Industry’s Goat
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 […]
Jen Wong – Reddit, the Bustling Market Place of Ideas: How To Preserve and Monetize Community-Driven Free Expression
Reddit COO Jen Wong steers one of the largest social networks on the internet, and the one you probably hear about the least. Despite not being a media darling, Reddit is probably one of the largest, if not the largest, repositories of discussion in the digital world. Reddit cleaves to old-school Internet values of free […]
Galyn Bernard & Christina Carbonell – Business of Keeping It Simple: How Less is More at Primary
They outgrow them in hours. They cost a fortune and you always need more. They have graphics and slogans that seem more to reflect the biases of the people who buy them than the people who wear them. You’ve probably guessed the topic: childrens’ clothes. The $70 billion global market is filled with long-standing brands […]