How Commerce, Creator, & Consumer Brands Are Built
DTC POD is a podcast about all things direct to consumer. We cover everything for starting, growing, and optimizing eCommerce stores and DTC (or D2C) brands.
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We host the best and brightest minds in DTC commerce, consumer, & creative. Here are a few that have joined us on the pod.
Jeremy Cai
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Jason Wong
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Nik Sharma
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Matt Lanter
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#221 - Ronak Trivedi: Pietra - The Platform Powering Creator Led Commerce
Ronak Trivedi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Pietra, the A16Z & Founders Fund backed platform that brings sourcing, fulfillment, and e-commerce under one roof to make launching a commerce brand a breeze. To date, the company has raised over $15 million and has supported thousands of brands, including a few that have been on DTC Pod (shoutout Suckerz, Form, & GEM!). Prior to starting Pietra, Ronak led product at UBER for UBER Pool.
#220 - Steven Izen: Elements & Lokai - Finding Scale With Partnerships, Purpose, & Balance
Steven Izen is Founder & CEO of Elements and Lokai. Elements is a functional wellness drink, and Lokai is the popular jewelry brand known for bracelets including material sourced from the top of Mt. Everest and the bottom of the Dead Sea, and has official partnerships for collections with Disney, National Geographic, and major league sports like the NFL, NHL, NBA, WNBA, and MLB.
#219 - JT Barnett: The TikTok Masterclass for Brands
JT joins Blaine in the LA studio to talk about how brands can unlock massive growth by thinking like creators. They cover topics including building your tiktok strategy, the ins & outs of the tiktok and instagram algorithm, types of content that perform best, how to generate winning content,
#218 - Mark Samuel, IWON Organics: Scaling Your CPG Brand to 5000+ Retailers
Mark Samuel is the founder & CEO of IWON Organics, a plant-based food company that makes bold, flavor-infused snacks and cereal made from plant proteins like peas, beans and brown rice. IWON's healthy snacks can be found in over 5,000 stores nationwide, including Kroger's, Wegmans, Sprouts, Whole Foods, Vitamin Shoppe, Safeway, Ralphs, Brookshire’s, and online at iwonorganics.com, Amazon and Thrive Market.
#217 - Oriel Davis-Lyons: How Spotify’s Head of Creative Builds Lasting Brands
Oriel Davis-Lyons is Head of Creative - Podcast & Talk at Spotify, and Founder of Corpleisure, an elevated WFH fashion & apparel line. He started his career in New Zealand, copywriting for Colenso BBDO, before moving to New York and joining both R/GA & Droga5 as Creative Director.
#216 - Sofia Laurell & Carolyn Batyske, Tiny Organics: Building A Venture Scale Supply Chain
Tiny Organics Co-Founders Sofia Laurell (Co-CEO) and Carolyn O'Hare Batyske (President & COO) have raised over $13 million in venture funding to bring healthy and organic food options to children.
#215 - Brian Sugar: Sugar Capital, POPSUGAR, & Novel - Building A DTC Empire
Brian Sugar is the Founder and General Partner of Sugar Capital, a venture capital firm investing in the future of commerce. Previously, he co-founded POPSUGAR, where he serves as CEO & board member. He is also a Co-Founder and Chairman at Novel.
#214 - Sahand Dilmaghani: Terra Kaffe & Building Hardware In A Coffee Boom
Sahand Dilmaghani is the CEO & founder of Terra Kaffe, a cutting-edge espresso machine that transforms the entire experience of making coffee at home. Sahand started Terra Kaffe in 2017, which has raised over $14M to date.
#213 - FORM By Sami Clarke: Building A Digital Wellness Empire Through Content, Community & Commerce
Sami Clarke is a certified health, wellness, & fitness trainer who built a large following for her workout videos and holistic approach to wellness. With millions of followers and hundreds of millions of views across Youtube, Instagram, & TikTok, Sami cultivated a strong community before deciding to start her own fitness & wellness platform, FORM.
#212 - Cherene Aubert: A Look Inside Bobbie’s Rocketship Growth
Cherene Aubert is the Director of Growth at Bobbie, the first European style organic infant formula that meets FDA standards. Bobbie has raised over $50M to take the soon to be 100B+ formula market by storm.
About DTC POD
DTC POD is a podcast about all things direct to consumer. We cover everything for starting, growing, and scaling world class businesses.
We talk with founders, marketers, platforms, creators, VCs, and ad agencies to cover topics like brand building, social strategy, influencer marketing, website conversion, paid media, Facebook ads, consumer trends, email marketing, business tactics & more.
If you're interested in how the best consumer & creator brands are built, DTC Pod is for you.
Ramon Berrios
Ramon has Co-Founded Trend. It is a curated marketplace of creators and brands. We help brands source high quality custom content. We love working with new, innovative companies that are changing the game.
Blaine Bolus
Blaine Bolus is the Co-Founder of Castmagic, the AI platform that turns long form audio into ready-to-publish content. Previously he founded Seated (series C), a restaurant booking & rewards platform based in NYC.
Interact with other DTC founders and access our monthly fireside chats with industry experts. A (free!) resourceful and friendly community for the best in consumer, commerce, & creator.
The guests they bring on know their stuff, and I like that they get into the weeds on actionable advice. They also seem to delve into which metrics are important, how to improve them etc. the hosts also know their stuff! Highly recommend to those in the D2C space.
I’m a newbie in the DTC space. Almost every week this podcast has at least one guest or topic that helps me think about problems differently. Take advantage of the knowledge shared on this podcast.
The guests are amazing! Each episode covers a unique topic. Some will resonate with you more than others but the variety and depth of knowledge keeps me coming back. Keep up the good work guys.
Ramon and Blaine get the coolest guests on DTC POD! Every single episode has so many gems and if you’re a brand founder or in the DTC/CPG space at all- you need to be listening to this podcast. I feel like you’re leaving money on the table by not listening to it!
