313 Jay Albany - Despite the graveyard of D2C companies, it can work in the world’s most remote city

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

A conversation with Jay Albany, CEO of Dirty Clean Food, about what it takes to build a successful direct-to-consumer business- basically buying from regen farmers and delivering to consumer, restaurants, etc.- in the regen space and in the most remote city on the planet. Despite all challenges of B2C, Jay makes a passionate case for the contrary. A deep dive full of golden nuggets of direct-to-consumer companies, what works and what doesn't, but also a long conversation on the power of transparency within businesses and the most important return of all, inspiration.

What are the lessons learned? Looking at the graveyard of direct-to-consumer companies we have seen, especially in COVID years, raising a lot of money, struggling, or shutting down. Does that mean disrupting the current supermarket oligopolies isn’t worth it?

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Chapters

1. Building a Successful Direct-to-Consumer Business (00:00:00)

2. Starting a Regenerative Food Business (00:11:43)

3. Building a Direct-to-Consumer Food Business (00:25:42)

4. Adapting Quickly to Changing Market (00:35:06)

5. Pivoting Business Operations During COVID (00:39:42)

6. Scaling Direct-to-Consumer Business Operations (00:44:25)

7. Strategic Shift to Plant-Based Foods (00:53:48)

8. Transparency and Growth in Business (01:07:16)

9. Direct-to-Consumer Business Expansion Strategy (01:13:26)

10. Investor Strategy in Disrupting Food Industry (01:25:47)

11. Investing in Local Food Infrastructure (01:35:40)