Fellow Climate Warriors,

This is the first of two episodes we recorded during our media partnership with London Tech Week!  

This episode I drink 🍹mojitos with Tessa Clarke, Co-founder and CEO of OLIO. 

Join us as we dive into all things 🥗food waste, 🐑growing up on a farm, tips for becoming a 🦸‍♀️zero waste hero, resurgence of the concept of 🤝sharing, COVID’s impact on OLIO, challenges and solutions for raising funds as a 👩‍💼female founder, and oh so much more!!

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📝  Show Notes Below👇

🎧 New podcast episode:

Tessa Clarke, Co-founder and CEO of OLIO on the size of the food waste crisis:

“If it were a country, food waste would be the third largest source of greenhouse gas emission after the USA and China, and that’s because a landmass larger than China is used every single year to grow food that is never eaten.”

OLIO connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home-grown vegetables, bread from your baker, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away. For your convenience, OLIO can also be used for non-food household items too.

🍹 What we drank during the episode: mojitos

Enjoy the show!

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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

🐣SodaStream

🐣Batiste Rhum

🐣Dyson

🐣Dr. Bronner’s

🐣Whole Foods

🐣The Every Company

🐣Tesco

🐣foodpanda

🐣Globechain

🐣SafetyNet Technologies

🐣Aeropowder

🐣Allplants

People/places/things mentioned during the episode

🧠Wiltshire

🧠Cotswolds

🧠University of Cambridge

🧠Stanford University

🧠The 200 Bn Club

🧠Dana Kanze TED Talk 

🧠World Book Day

🧠The Lean Startup

🧠Why We Sleep

🧠May AI-Koorani

🧠Dan Watson

🧠Seaspiracy

🧠Ryan Robinson

🧠Jonathan Petrides

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[0:00] Intro

[1:30] Drink of the show

[6:45] Tessa’s childhood

[10:00] Concept of sharing

[15:00] What inspired Tessa to start a company addressing food waste

[26:00] Rapid fire 3 household items people should swap

[27:30] Launching Olio

[31:00] Extent of the food waste problem

[34:00] Prototyping Olio

[37:00] How COVID drove Olio’s hockey stick growth

[41:00] Concern about climate change driving Olio’s growth

[43:00] Barrier of trust in sharing

[49:00] Experience raising Olio’s Series B as a female founder

[55:30] Olio’s next stage of expansion

[1:01:00] Olio’s volunteers

[1:06:00] 3 Books

[1:08:00] 3 Startups

[1:10:00] Conclusion