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In The Money: eCommerce, DTC, and CPG — 53 episodes

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Why Growth Breaks Consumer Brands And How to Finance Through It

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The Hardware Startup Building the Operating System for Families

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$50M in Revenue With Just 7 Employees and The Minimum Viable Company

4

Building an Apparel Brand Without Inventory

5

The $5M PO Problem and How Retail Can Break Your Brand

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What 100+ Amazon Brands Taught Him, And What He Built Next

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Why European Brands Scale Differently

8

Apparel Is Not a Venture Business

9

Founder Quality Is Still the Gate

10

Why Unit Economics Are the Real Signal of Product-Market Fit

11

From TV Weatherman to Consumer Founder

12

Distribution Is the Moat, How Freestyle Diapers is Winning

13

From Crickets to Customers: Creating a New Pet Food Market

14

The K-Shaped Economy and the New Rules of Consumer Investing

15

How Better Forecasting Became Branch's Best Funding Round

16

Velocity Over Vanity: How to Really Evaluate Food Brands

17

The Hard Truth About Growth When the Wind Isn’t at Your Back

18

Capital, Category Creation & Where Smart Money Is Moving in Consumer

19

Greg Davidson on Capital Discipline, Channel Strategy & Scaling Smarter

20

The New Consumer Landscape: Capital Cycles, Moats & Market Reality

21

Bootstrapped, Profitable, and Growing, Bushbalm’s Playbook for Sustainable Success

22

Inside the Playbook: Financing DTC and CPG Brands Through Rosenthal’s Asset-Based Lending Lens

23

From Fads to Foundations: Amanda Schutzbank on the New Era of Consumer Investing

24

From Frozen Bread to Fresh Profits: The Wildgrain Playbook for Lean, Durable Growth

25

Focus, Moats, and the New Consumer Playbook with Drew Skolnik of KarpReilly

26

From Red Antler to Habitat: Building the Next Generation of Consumer Venture

27

Every Point of Profit Cuts into Health: Kevin Lee on Scaling Immi Without Compromise

28

From Overlevered to Profitable: How &Collar Turned Debt into Discipline

29

Global eCommerce After De Minimis: Passport CEO on Tariffs and the Future of Cross-Border Brands

30

From $0 to Mid–Eight Figures: Vital Plus and the Discipline Behind Explosive Growth

31

Building Beyond Basics: Brian Berger on Scaling Mack Weldon in the New DTC Era

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Cracking the Ecommerce Equation, Jay Wright on Scaling DTC Brands Without the Black Box

33

Inside True Beauty Ventures: What It Really Takes to Raise Capital in Beauty Wellness

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From Doris Dev to Canopy: Building Beauty’s Most Innovative Hardware Brand

35

From Dang Foods to Sherwood Partners: Lessons in Building, Falling, and Restructuring Consumer Brands

36

Inside the Process of Raising from a Consumer Brand Fund

37

Tactics to Get Unstuck as a Mid-7-Figure Brand

38

Navigating Fashionization and Deprescriptionization in Health and Wellness

39

Building of a Digitally-Native Omnichannel CPG Hold Co

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Building Both a Living Product Moat and Brand Equity

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Why Better Product, Not Better Marketing, Wins in CPG

42

Cutting Down to Find Product-Market-Fit and Doubling Down on Winners

43

From DTC Drift to Focused, Profitable Growth with Italian Sneakers, Brand DNA, and Doing Less, Better.

44

Leveraging Fandom and Community to Avoid the Meta Hamster-Wheel

45

Navigating Investors Seed to Growth, Credit to Equity in CPG

46

Building a Career in CPG as Founder, Investor, Executive, Acquirer with Matt Jung

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Crawl, Walk, Run of CPG Growth with Anna Whiteman

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Brands, Creators, Agencies, and AI with Shwinnabego

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The Power of Brand Focus and Niche Markets with Rob Fraser

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Why Product Focus Wins In the Long Run with Connor Wilson

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How to Increase LTV and Exit Value on DTC

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How to Win Beverage, DTC and Online

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Do eCommerce HoldCos Work