Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Episode 160 of the How I Built This with Guy Raz podcast, hosted by Guy Raz | Wondery, titled "Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)" was published on June 17, 2019 and runs 42 minutes.
June 17, 2019 ·42m · How I Built This with Guy Raz
Summary
Twenty-five years ago, after Mei Xu emigrated from China to the U.S., she loved going to Bloomingdale's to gaze at their housewares. She eventually started making candles in her basement with Campbell's Soup cans, an experiment that led to the multi-million dollar company Chesapeake Bay Candle. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Dan Kurzrock and Jordan Schwartz, who turned up-cycled beer grain into a snack bar called ReGrained. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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