119. Nick Green, CEO & Co-Founder of Thrive Market
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
What do you get when Whole Foods meets Costco? Cue Thrive Market, an online, membership-driven shop that brings organic, top-quality finds at wholesale, affordable prices. For episode 119, I’m chatting with founder Nick Green, bringing it back to his beginnings outside of Minneapolis. We talk about how healthy living has always been a priority, growing up in a home where his mom sent him to sleepovers with his own no-sugar-added eats. He tells me about starting his first company while at Harvard, selling that company and moving to Los Angeles, and the business meeting where Thrive was born. We also discuss his decision to donate his 2020 salary to COVID-19 relief, and his best advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.
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| 0:00.0 | jump into the deep end and get out there and make mistakes and let the world be your advisor. |
| 0:05.2 | There is no better way to confront truth and reality than to like be out there living in the real world. Hey, hurdlers, Emily Abadi bringing you episode 119 of Hurtle. |
| 0:30.2 | A wellness-focused podcast where I sit down with inspiring individuals to talk about everything |
| 0:35.0 | from their big wins to how they've gotten through some of life's toughest moments. On the show, you can expect vulnerability, motivation, and candid |
| 0:43.5 | discussions with everyone from top athletes to aspiring entrepreneurs on what it really takes |
| 0:48.4 | to follow your passions. My mission is simple. To inspire you to be your best self, move with intention, and have |
| 0:56.8 | some fun along the way. |
| 0:59.6 | Today, I am chatting with Nick Green. |
| 1:02.1 | He is the co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market. |
| 1:06.2 | Now, if you've never heard of Thrive Market before, in Nick's words, it is like Whole Foods |
| 1:13.2 | meets Costco online. It's a membership-driven model. You can buy healthy foods from top-selling |
| 1:19.1 | organic brands at wholesale prices. I myself have been a Thrive Market member for some time |
| 1:25.8 | growing up in a household where my dad is a |
| 1:28.4 | Costco fiend living in New York where the prices for healthy items can be extremely, extremely |
| 1:35.0 | high. Thrive Market has enabled me to get a lot of the stuff that I love, everything from |
| 1:40.9 | fresh fish to staples like flour and almond butter, all at super, super reasonable |
| 1:46.3 | prices. |
| 1:47.2 | In today's episode, Nick talks to me about growing up outside of Minneapolis and learning |
| 1:52.5 | from a really young age what it meant to eat and live healthy. |
| 1:57.3 | His mom was super health conscious, so much so that he would literally bring his own |
| 2:02.0 | eats to sleepovers at friends' houses. He talks to me about going to college, starting his |
| 2:08.7 | first business at a super young age, and the lessons that came with that. We talk about him |
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