EPISODE · Jul 28, 2022 · 47 MIN
#209 - Jeff Nobbs: Zero Acre - $37 MILLION to Reinvent Cooking Oil
from DTC POD: How The Best Brands Are Built · host Ramon Berrios, Blaine Bolus, Jeff Nobbs
Jeff Nobbs is the co-founder & CEO of Zero Acre Farm, an environmentally-focused food company. Nobbs has been an entrepreneur from day 1. As a teenager in 2006, he cofounded cashback shopping website Extrabux. It was acquired by ebates in 2014. In 2015, Nobbs jumped into the food scene and started a healthy, fast-casual restaurant Kitava — which he still owns today. When COVID hit, he co-founded HelpKitchen to combat food insecurity. HelpKitchen has since served millions of free meals to people in need. And in 2020 he decided it was time enter the oil business. At the same time, he cofounded Zero Acre Farms to remove destructive vegetable oils from the food system. This episode is brought to you by OpenStore: Visit https://open.store to get a free, no-obligation offer for your e-commerce business from OpenStore in 24 hours. Have any questions about the show or topics you'd like us to explore further?Shoot us a DM; we'd love to hear from you. Follow us for content, clips, giveaways, & updates!DTCPod InstagramDTCPod TwitterDTCPod TikTokJeff Nobbs - Co- Founder & CEO of Zero Acre FarmsRamon Berrios - CEO of Trend.ioBlaine Bolus - COO of OmniPanel
What this episode covers
Zero Acre Farms is creating a new category of healthy oils and fats, made by fermentation. Zero Acre is on a mission to reduce the consumption of vegetable oil which has been linked to significant health risks and has an environmentally destructive production process. Jeff Nobbs joins DTC Pod to give Blaine & Ramon a lesson in vegetable oil and why Zero Acre raised $37M to disrupt the vegetable oil industry.
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