Babson Built
Babson Built is a dive into the entrepreneurial mindset and journey, brought to life through the stories of Babson founders. From dorm room startup to Shark Tank to Series A, our interviews depict the highs, lows, and thrills of starting and scaling a venture.
Episodes
32 episodes
Hio: Building Better Relationships
Babson alumni and Hio CEO and Co-Founder Jason Craparo shares why relationships are core to Hio's value proposition as an event platform, how he saw the potential of virtual events well before COVID-19, and how he leveraged the business model c...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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28:19
Flexetail:The Future of Retail
Think food trucks, but for retail. With Flexetail modern mobile spaces, Babson alumni Joel Kamm is changing how brands connect and interact with their customers. Plus, we talk with Joel about landing major customers, leveraging your MBA, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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26:24
Gravyty: Making Nonprofits AI-Enabled
Babson alumni Rich Palmer joins us on this episode to share the "why" behind Gravyty, the first and leading artificial intelligence company focused solely on social good, which he co-founded and leads as CTO. Plus, he gives us his advice: how t...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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30:30
Gautam Gupta: Early Stage Investor with a Startup Mindset
Babson alumni Gautam Gupta joins us to share his journey, from his start as an early-stage investor at General Catalyst to NatureBox, which he co-founded and grew to a leading brand in the snacking market. Plus, hear how Gautam is now bringing ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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28:12
Busy Beauty: First Sustainable, Waste Free Wipes Company
Founded in 2018, Busy Beauty delivers waste-free, U.S. made and naturally focused wipes. The brand has experienced remarkable growth. Its current partners include Kohl's, Macy's, and JetBlue. Co-founder Jamie Steenbakkers graduated from Babson ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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20:00
Special “Maker’s Episode” with Founders of The Grommet and Detrapel
Hear from the founders of The Grommet, a “makers” marketplace that highlights the stories and people behind the products. One of those people is David Zamarin, who is founder and CEO of DetraPel, Shark Tank deal-maker and Babson alum. David cha...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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39:09
Parlor Skis: Largest Ski Manufacturer in New England Makes Fully Customized Skis by Hand
Parlor makes custom skis and snowboards that are hand-built in New England by skiers and are 100% American made. Parlor has been featured in Ski Magazine, Bloomberg, and the Boston Herald. Founder Mark Wallace got his MBA from Babson in 2014, a...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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32:30
Jamie Kent: Independent Artist & Entrepreneur
Jamie Kent, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and Babson alum, has been called an “artist you need to know” by Rolling Stone magazine and a “must watch artist” by the Huffington Post. His songs have been heard on major national televis...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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36:59
Ring: Amazon's Second Largest Acquisition
Ring Inc is a home security and smart home company owned by Amazon. Ring manages a range of home security products that incorporate outdoor motion-detecting cameras, such as the Ring video doorbell. Founder Jamie Siminoff graduated from Babson ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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22:23
Bombas: 20 Million Socks Donated and a Booming Business
Bombas is a comfort focused apparel brand with a mission to help those in need. Similar to other “one-for-one” model brands like Toms Shoes and Warby Parker, Bombas donates a pair of socks for every pair it sells. Founder David Heath graduated ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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33:43
Yad: Products Showcasing Artwork of People with Disabilities
Yad manufactures unique home decor items that showcases the artwork of people with disabilities. Founder Debi Cohen won the 2019 BETA challenge, went on to participate in the Babson Summer Venture Program as well as Mass Challenge. Listen to...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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22:18
Season 3 Promo: Yad, Ring, Bombas, Jamie Kent, and more
Find out what's ahead on Season 3 of Babson Built. Hear brand new interviews with Babson founders. Subscribe now so you don't miss out!
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:18
Nectar: The First CBD Beverage on the East Coast
Nectar CBD has combined the elements of a superdrink with the benefits of CBD, a recently FDA approved and Federally legal extract from hemp plants. In this episode, Nectar founder Trevor Grode shares about how his team have grown the company f...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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20:34
CleanCult: Cleaning Products that are Safe and Non-Toxic
Co-founder Ryan Lupberger shares the fascinating story of Cleancult, which started out when Lupberger tried to read the ingredients on a a bottle of detergent and couldn't find any! Since that time, the company has raised funding and grown like...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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18:03
Think Board: Optimized Dry Erase Boards
Think Board makes state of the art, hyper-useful dry erase boards. Their products sit in a highly accessible price point for customers. In this episode, Gabriella Bourdon interviews Think Board founder Hanson Grant about how he went from making...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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31:17
Botkeeper: Advanced Automated Accounting Software
In this episode we chat with Enrico Palmerino, founder of BotKeeper, an automated bookkeeping software powered by artificial intelligence (AI). At the time of recording, BotKeeper had recently raised an $18 million round from Greycroft an...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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33:10
Mighty Well: Stylish Wear for Healthcare
Mighty Well has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneurship, and the Boston Globe. The company has also won Babson's prestigious Beta Challenge, as well as the Breakaway Challenge. In this episode Emily Levy, Babson class of 2016, tells of her ex...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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29:26
Spext: Audio Production for the Next Generation
Anup Gosavi's passion for starting a business has taken him to many places. After building his last startup to hundreds of thousands of daily active users, he decided to pivot the platform to create Spext. Spext is audio production for the next...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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31:00
Magnomer: Magnetizable Markers for Zero Waste Packaging
Ravish Majithia is a “materials scientist by training, a chemist at heart and an entrepreneur in the works.” He was named as one of Poets and Quants Top 100 MBA's in 2018, and his startup Magnomer won Gold in the 2018 MassChallenge after also w...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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32:52
Taylor Custom Rings: Custom Engagement Rings with a Mission
Taylor Custom Rings was founded by a husband & wife team who are raising four kids, two dogs, as well as growing their jewelry business. The company uses lab grown diamonds to craft beautiful rings that are custom made to the specifications...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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32:20
Green Piñata Toys: Toys that Grow with your Kids
Shiva is an engineer, turned product manager, turned entrepreneur. She started Green Piñata over three years ago and it continues to grow today. Green Piñata delivers toys that grow with your kid: sign up, create a profile for you kid, and boom...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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27:23
SoloCoco: Handcrafted Coconut Oil & Social Impact
Hear the story of SoloCoco, a social impact business based in the Dominican Republic that creates virgin coconut oil products, handmade by single mothers who have become experts at their craft. The company dis...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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22:13
Cabletron Systems | Cables for the Internet
Cabletron Systems began in the early 1980’s to manufacture networking computer equipment that dramatically reduced the cost of Ethernet networking equipment. This technology led the way to the more modern computer technology. In this episode Ja...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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23:36
Detrapel | Make Everything Waterproof
In this episode of Babson Built, Jake Maude interviews Detrapel Founder David Zamarin to discover how he took a high school business idea and grew it into a nanotechnology used by thousands of consumers and brands alike. The story unfolds about ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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25:23