"I have a very crazy sweet tooth. I'm picking at sweets. I'm picking at cookies. I'm picking at chocolate. I love chocolate." Carlos Ramirez, co-founder of VADIY, on what he reaches for while building. His co-founder Kerwin Vasquez, who spent 17 years as an electrician at Grand Central Terminal, is…
"I could eat fried food every day, man. Fried chicken, shrimp, fish, french fries." Michael Conward, co-founder of MyLÚA Health, on what he gave up for 75 Commit while building an AI maternal healthcare platform that won the NIH RADx Maternal Health Challenge and landed a partnership with IBM. This…
"I've been eating ramen like several times a week since I was seven. It's kind of a miracle that I don't have scurvy." Isabelle Kent, head of Startup Leaders and founder of behavioral intelligence platform Gigsaw, on the convenience food that's followed her from childhood to founder life. In this…
"I'm a huge fruit snacks person. I don't really do much candy anymore, but I love fruit snacks." Jonathan Bateman, secure-software developer and founder of deepfake detection platform Real Recognizes Real AI, on the one childhood food obsession he never outgrew. In this episode of Founders Fridge, host Heidi Knoblauch…
"I ate Count Chocula every day for breakfast. I'm not kidding. Every day. From when I started chewing food until I was twenty-one." Leanne Linsky, comedian turned entrepreneur and founder of live online comedy platform Plauzzable, on the cereal that defined her childhood and the letter she wrote to General…
"Food is a pharmacy. If you have premium gas, you're able to get more from your workouts, more gains." Kamal Singh orients his entire week around the farmer's market. Whatever's fresh, whatever's seasonal—he buys it, then figures out what to do with it. Radishes and beets he's never cooked before?…
What happens when a founder builds a dessert franchise empire but still eats like a five-year-old? In this episode of Founder’s Fridge, host Heidi Knoblauch sits down with Uri Geva, CEO of Cookie Dough Bliss, to talk about growing a national brand, raising creative capital, and why his food rules—no…
What do selling wild fruit in Albania and building a global super app have in common? In this episode of Founders Fridge, host Heidi Knoblauch sits down with Arbër Kadia, Co-founder of Patoko, to talk about how early lessons in creativity, resourcefulness, and family connection shaped his approach to entrepreneurship.…
"I can't just be filled with food generally. It has to be the food from my childhood." Jane Chen, founder and CEO of Letterly, on why she fills her entire trunk with authentic Chinese food from Flushing and drives it three hours to Saratoga Springs to fuel building her venture-backed…
What does startup life look like when your boardroom is a barn and your coworkers are three donkeys named Sassy Ass, Sir Assalot, and Total Ass? In this episode of Founder’s Fridge, host Heidi Knoblauch talks with Hailee Greene, founder and Chief Everything Officer of Green Anchors Processing, which aims…
What if the meal you grew up with is what gets you through the hardest parts of building a company? In this episode of Founders Fridge, host Heidi Knoblauch talks with Sumorwuo Zaza, co-founder of Nickel Pass, about how childhood meals, family rituals, and Liberian food traditions shaped his journey…
In this week's episode, I sit down with Amy Gurske, founder and CEO of sayhii, to explore the roots of her entrepreneurial journey. From cleaning horse stalls as a child to selling trained horses to pay for college, Amy’s early ventures shaped the resilient, creative mindset that drives her work…