How Commerce, Creator, & Consumer Brands Are Built

Vasa is the founder & CEO of Perfy, a low sugar soda, and Growthbuster, a remote marketing agency that leverages story and creative to help food and beverage brands grow.

Nigel Thomas is the CEO of Alpha Inboud, a digital marketing agency that helps DTC brands grow to 8 figures, profitably. Having previously built a 7 figure agency and consulted many 7 and 8 figure DTC brands on their marketing strategy, Nigel knows what it takes to implement complex paid social campaigns at scale.

Rob Willey is the CMO at Cheribundi, a tart cherry juice company, and Emil Capital Partners, a mid-size private equity firm focused on innovative late stage startups in the CPG, health, wellness and beauty space. Previously, Rob served as CMO of TaskRabbit through it's acquisition by IKEA.

On this episode of DTC Pod, Jesse joins Blaine to talk about the future of commerce. They discuss mobile commerce, moving from agency to brand owner, increasing conversion, bootstrapping, fundraising, testing out MVPs, getting customer buy in, developing product roadmaps, and much more.

Gretchen Hollingsworth is the founder of Ink+Alloy, a fast growing jewelry and accessories brand featuring products built by skilled artisans in India. Formerly she founded Paddywax, an internationally iconic candle company. As founder and creative director, she designed products for retail behemoths Whole Foods, Urban Outfitters, West Elm, Crate and Barrel, and Target.

Courtney Klein is the Founder & CEO of Storq, a maternity focused apparel brand. Having worked in creative & design for over a decade, at Razorfish and as a parter at NYC design firm Hard Candy shell, she saw a gap in the market for luxe basics for pregnancy, nursing, and parenthood.

Max Kislevitz is the Cofounder of Bala, an LA based fitness accessories company. Max & his wife + cofounder Natalie Holloway were one of Shark Tank's all time hottest deals, ultimately securing financing from Mark Cuban and Maria Sharapova. Since then, the company has done upwards of 50M+ in revenue, has been worn by celebs & culture icons, introduced new product lines, and kicked off Balacize, a new digital platform for the brand.

Haris Memon is the founder of Nameless Ventures, a holding co that launches high growth DTC brands. He is the founder of Miracle Brand, a functional home goods brand that has crossed 30M in ARR, as well as Seedwell, a holistic health & supplements brand which has demonstrated fast growth out of the gates. Haris has also served as an advisor and investor in several popular consumer and retail companies.

Lauren is the founder of Dreamday, a performance PR firm. She's also co-founder of The Quality Edit, and was formerly Founding Team & VP of Marketing at Ritual, where she oversaw its branding, communications, community, and partnerships from Day 1, helping to scale the company to millions of subscribers.

Jasmine Garnsworthy is the Founder of Female Founders World, a community for women building consumer businesses. She is a digital communications specialist and former style and beauty editor at POPSUGAR, StyleCaster, and Mamamia. Previously, she founded The Buff, a custom skincare brand which tailored products to each customer's unique skin type.