Bobbie: Laura Modi & Her Mentor

It’s common for a tech startup employee to start their own tech startup. It’s rarer for a startup employee to go on to build a baby formula company. When Laura Modi showed up at Walgreens at 11pm to buy baby formula for the first time, she felt ashamed and afraid. So she started a company that didn't just create a healthier formula, but built a community, participated in activism, and made business decisions that didn't sell more, but grew trust. Bobbie became the fastest growing formula company since the 1980s. And a major source of Laura’s business savvy? Her time at Airbnb, under the hospitality legend Chip Conley, who transformed her understanding of a “product.” In this episode, the unusual story behind a fast-growing startup that built a deeper social movement.