Betsy Vohs
Studio BV Founder/CEO
Never in modern history has office space been more disrupted than during the Covid-19 pandemic. And as CEOs contemplate how to bring workers back—whether they’ll bring workers back—architect and commercial
By All Means
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Renay Dossman
Neighborhood Development Center President
Renay Dossman built her career with Fortune 500 companies, moving from Cargill to Target, where she found her passion in food innovation. But after years of traveling the world for
Tyler Lorenzen
PURIS CEO
Behind every plant-based burger, oat milk latte, and protein shake is one essential ingredient: pea protein. Without it, there’s no Beyond Meat. Minneapolis-based Puris, fueled by a $100 million investment
Mary Grove
Bread & Butter Ventures Managing Partner
After 15 years at Google, Mary Grove made a sharp career turn that baffled many Silicon Valley insiders. She decided to become a venture capital investor—in Minnesota. “We got a
Lee Wallace
Peace Coffee Owner/CEO
In the 1990s, when Lee Wallace told business schools she was interested in studying the intersection of mission and money, they steered her into public policy. It was a time
Ashley + Ahmed El Shourbagy
Co-Founders of Dogs of Instagram + Lucy & Co.
Have you ever come up with what you thought was a really clever social media handle, sure to be your key to fame and fortune, only to find it’s been
Jill Blashack Strahan
Tastefully Simple Founder + CEO
“Sales will take you anywhere.” That skill took Jill Blashack Strahan from a small farm town where she ran a café and didn’t dare to dream much bigger to founder
Rosemary Ugboajah
Neka Creative Founder + CEO
“Our vision is to be a role model for inclusion in the industry,” says Rosemary Ugboajah, founder and CEO of Neka Creative, a Minneapolis-based brand development agency that makes inclusion
Rita Katona + Eric Hall
So Good So You Co-Founders
It’s a good time to be in the business of selling immunity. Minneapolis-based wellness company So Good So You makes plant-based juice shots packed with probiotics that support the immune
Angie Conley
Abilitech Medical founder and CEO
Abilitech Medical is on the brink of launching the first-of-its-kind wearable assistive device that makes it possible for patients with upper-limb weakness or injury to use their arms for everyday
Tammy Lee
Xena Therapies Founder and CEO
Tammy Lee launched a line of wearable cool therapy medical devices in February, 2020, and one month later, she had to shut her new company down due to Covid-19. It
Aneela and Sameer Kumar – HabitAware
Co-Founders
ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Aneela Idnani Kumar started pulling out hair from her eyebrows and eyelashes when she was a girl. In her early 20s, she Googled her secret habit and
John Puckett
Caribou Coffee Co-Founder
On Monday March 17, in the face of a national emergency, John Puckett joined Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at a press conference announcing that restaurants and bars must close to
ABOUT THIS EPISODE: “We do not want to go back to being the way we were,” says Chuck Runyon, co-founder and CEO of Self Esteem Brands, the parent company to
Love Your Melon’s Zachary Quinn on Navigating Covid-19
Co-founder and President, Love Your Melon
Anticipating that face masks are going to be a necessary accessory for the foreseeable future, Love Your Melon is ramping up its collection and returning to the buy one, give
Jeremy Segal
Proozy Founder , CEO
ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Proozy just may be the biggest overstock deals website you’re not shopping—yet. But hundreds of thousands of people have discovered Proozy, which, like Nordstrom Rack or T.J.
Jeff Gau
Marco CEO
Twin Cities Business · Episode 41 — Jeff Gau, Marco CEO Marco was a typewriter dealer when Jeff Gau landed a sales job with the St. Cloud, Minn. company in
Wiping out on Rollerblades and cracking his iPhone prompted Benjamin VandenWymelenberg to make his first phone case out of wood scraps. An architecture student who had grown up on a