Making healthy food accessible to everyone with Nick Green from Thrive Market

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Between the rising cost of groceries and the all too common food desert, access to healthy and affordable food in America is getting harder to find. Today’s guest, Nick Green is the co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market, a membership-based online grocery store that focuses on natural and organic food and household products. Thrive Market isn’t just focused on offering healthy options, they want to ensure everyone has access to them so they’ve become the first online grocer to accept SNAP and EBT benefits. In this episode, Green discusses how it’s possible to build a business that is a shareholder-driven business and a business that cares about the stakeholders.

They also talked about:

• The logistics of running a grocery company sustainably from the beginning
• Their unusual path to funding
• How they organized the leadership team with four co-founders

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