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Oura CMO on How a Product Designed to Deliver Hyper-Personalized Health Results Scaled Into Big Retailers Like Target

The wearable tech brand tapped into wellness trends to deliver on growing consumer interest in precision health technology.

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Trendy Startup PopUp Bagels’ New CEO on Its National Growth Strategy

The disruptor is betting on a highly efficient format for its “rip and dip” bagels that departs from typical quick-service chains as it expands, Tory Bartlett tells CO—.

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True Religion CMO on Tapping Into Cultural Touchpoints and Celebrity Fans to Woo Gen Z

The denim giant is working to bounce back from two bankruptcies with a strategy that capitalizes on early 2000s nostalgia and courts a broader customer base, Kristen D’Arcy tells CO—.

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Meta Exec on How Its New AI Agent, Muse for Small Business, Is Designed to Save Time and Drive Growth
Meta’s Muse for Small Business can autonomously handle a wide variety of tasks, including creating ad content, communicating with customers, keeping track of appointments, and analyzing sales and spending.
By: Joan Verdon

How Elephant Green Chili Chutney Turned a Home Recipe into a Nationwide Condiment Brand
A career crisis and a white space in the Indian and kosher condiment segments sparked a mother-daughter duo to launch an herbaceous chutney that’s gained a consumer following for its versatility.
By: Denise Purcell

How Giant Sports Cards Became One of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies Amid an Adult Collecting Boom
The retailer taps into consumers’ interest in trading cards as both a hobby and a potential investment, Founder and CEO Jon Butts tells CO—.
By: Mark Hamstra

Made by Gather Founder (And Drew Barrymore) On Quietly Building a $500 Million Kitchenware Empire
As direct-to-consumer startups proliferated, Shae Hong bet on mass retail, bringing high design to the channel through brands including Beautiful by Drew Barrymore and capturing younger and higher-income consumers along the way.
By: Barbara Thau

Sports Beverage Brand Cizzle on How the Better-for-You Brand Doubled Revenues
The beverage maker has supercharged growth with both in-house manufacturing and health-geared beverages and snacks, drawing a new breed of health-and-wellness consumers to the sports nutrition market.
By: Mark Hamstra

How Blushington Built a Scalable Franchise Model by Blending Hospitality With (Convenience-Minded) Beauty Services
The beauty disruptor is expanding nationwide by bringing its multirevenue-stream, entrepreneur-driven concept to new markets, Co-founder Nicki Maron tells CO—.
By: Faye Brookman

How Joolies’ Founders Turned Dates From a Forgotten Fruit Into a Buzzy Better-for-You Brand
The company professes to be “changing the date-ing game” with memorable branding and line expansions into healthful energy snacks and candy alternatives.
By: Denise Purcell

How BaseCamp Is Turning the Hot Apparel Resale Market into a Franchise Model
The brothers behind Uptown Cheapskate and Kid to Kid helped turn a fragmented thrift industry into a $300 million franchise, proving secondhand clothing retail can scale like any other Main Street business.
By: Deborah Lynn Blumberg

Inside Talkspace's Plan to Make AI Therapy Safe—and Profitable
As millions turn to chatbots for mental health advice, the virtual therapy pioneer is betting its new AI guide and its acquisition by a major behavioral health operator will accelerate growth.
By: Deborah Lynn Blumberg

How Disruptor NATPAT Turned Insect Repellent Into a Multimillion-dollar Sticker Business
The startup behind kid-friendly insect repellent and wellness patches built a global business by solving problems at home first and continues to run the brand like a family operation.
By: Deborah Lynn Blumberg

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