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…
Nine years ago, host Heidi Knoblauch opened an oyster bar in a small town in upstate New York—fresh off a PhD from Yale and against all conventional wisdom. That leap into entrepreneurship revealed something she has carried with her ever since: food sits at the center of the founder journey.…