(un)sexy

In this episode I speak with Jesse Solomon, the Co-founder of Mickey, a B2B commodities marketplace that manages supply, freight bookings, and payments, making it fast and easy for customers to purchase, track, and acquire the commodities they need. We discuss how Jesse went from the music industry on the creative artist agency side and fell into an opportunity to disrupt the global trade industry. Jesse also shares about the changing nature of global supply and demand for raw materials and how Mickey is looking to become the inverse Alibaba bringing the world's commodities online.

In this episode, I speak with Lejjy Gafour, Co-founder and CEO of Future Fields, a company creating the future of food by developing custom custom growth media solutions for the cellular agriculture industry in a cost effective and scalable way. We discuss what cellular agriculture is, how it's done today, what can be done to make the unit economics cost effective, and what the future holds for lab-grown meat and non-animal based materials.

In this episode I speak with Tyler Ellison, the Founder and CEO of ChemDirect, a digital marketplace for the chemical industry connecting hundreds of thousands of products from vetted and reputable manufacturers with buyers who can transparently shop, compare and purchase. We discuss Tyler's decades-long experience in the global logistics and chemicals industries, how the $5T chemicals market operates today, and how the changing nature of manufacturers and buyers is forcing the industry to modernize.

In this episode we go down the rabbit hole of dirt! I speak with Cliff Fetner, the Founder and CEO of Soil Connect, a digital marketplace that provides a better, faster and cheaper way for construction professionals to transport and acquire soil, aggregates and other building materials, saving customers tens of thousands of dollars while substantially reducing the construction industry’s CO2 emissions. We discuss Cliff's decades in the construction space, how different types of dirt are classified, graded, and moved between sites, and how Soil Connect is applying technology to this old school industry.