S1E4 This female founder raised over $3M and selling over 7M tea drops with Sashee Chandran, CEO of Tea Drops

Founders with Pek

Meet Sashee Chandran, a woman empowering others in the industry. Sashee is the founder and CEO at tea drops. Tea drops is an innovative tea company based in California that creates organic and bagless teas. Sashee's mother was Chinese and her father was Sri Lankan. Before founding tea drops, Sashee worked in Silicon Valley leading digital marketing and market research campaigns for fortune 100 brands. Highlights from the episode; Sashee stresses that the main uniqueness about tea drops is in the form factor. She symbolizes her tea drops to a bath bomb in the manner which they dissolve in hot water. Sashee tells how she was fused to loving Chinese and Sri Lankan dishes because of her parents. She quotes it to have been really exciting. (Delicious she whispers) Sashee says that she has a utility patent for the process of how tea drops are made. she says that it was a long process. Pek asks Sashee to explain when she decided to bootstrap it, she starts off by explaining that a part of it was like she was deciding to do an MBA at that time and the money she would have she'd shift it to email startup money. Asked on how a grant from Tory Burch came about, Sashee explains how they made top 50 and top 10 in the fellow program. It provided her with the opportunity to pitch in front of Tory Birch and her panel. On how she got Michelle Obama and Chris's Tiegen rave about her tea, she just says that it's important to send your products everywhere so that you can create your own luck and she narrates how after sending her product she received a letter months later in her office with a seal from the white house. As the episode draws to its conclusion, Pek asks Sashee if there's anything she could have done differently. Sashee says that not having a place to turn to like a founder community was really lonely.