Impact at Scale

EP 59 - Marina Tran-Vu - Founder of EQUO - I Went Into the Startup World Completely Blind

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The Social Innovation Podcast was joined by Marina Tran-Vu, the Founder of EQUO.  Derived from the words ECO, meaning not harmful to the environment and STATUS QUO, meaning an existing state or condition, EQUO stands for the ideal of creating products with minimal impact to the environment.

Some of the topics that Marina and I discussed:

  • Leaving a high-paying job and going 'back' to Vietnam
  • Living quite an unsustainable life prior to founding EQUO
  • The grass straw and deciding to commercialize them globally
  • Starting a business during a recession
  • Building a sustainable AND fun brand
  • European expansion

    • Some other titles we considered for this episode:

    1. To Be Honest, I Was Completely Not Sustainable
    2. I Wanted Bright and Loud and Colorful
    3. I Did Everything by Trial and Error
    4. The Biggest Currency in Life Is Time
    5. People Said This Was Crazy and Stupid

      6. This episode was produced by Isabelle Goh.

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