577: Mia Saini Duchnowski, Oars + Alps Co-Founder
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi
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🗓️ 24 May 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A couple months back I purchased a gift for my husband through this company Oars + Alps, a men's athleisure and natural grooming brand. The brand is being called the "Warby Parker of men's grooming," and was created after the founders won the regional 2016 Harvard Business School New Venture Challenge and spent a year in research and development. All the while, the brainchild behind this product was none other than my old colleague Mia Saini Duchnowski. She, along with Laura Lisowski, is the company's founder, and our guest on So Money today.
I worked with Mia back in the day at TheStreet.com. We sat across from each other during the market's demise. She was an intern and was contemplating leaving Harvard Business School to pursue being a financial correspondent. She made the transition and went on to be a very successful reporter and anchor at Bloomberg TV covering the global financial markets. She's pivoted since, launching into the world of entrepreneurship. The idea for Oars + Alps grew out of a personal necessity; both Mia and her co-founder's husbands needed better products to help with sensitive skin.
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| 0:00.0 | So Money |
| 0:00.5 | Euchinowski, co-founder of Ours and Alps. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to So Money, with award-winning money |
| 0:10.0 | money guru Farno Shkorabi. |
| 0:12.0 | Each day, get a 30 minute dose of financial |
| 0:14.8 | inspiration from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, and from |
| 0:19.6 | Farnuus yourself. Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons? |
| 0:25.0 | Sorry, you're in the wrong place. |
| 0:27.0 | Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to So Money everyone. I'm your host |
| 0:37.8 | Farnoosh Terabi. A couple months ago I purchased a gift for my husband for Valentine's Day and it was a little set from this company called Ors and Alps which had some deodorant and some aftershave and some face lotion. Orson Alps is a men's |
| 0:56.2 | athleisure and natural grooming brand. I discovered them on Facebook because that seems to be |
| 1:01.7 | where I learned about everything these days for better or worse. |
| 1:05.5 | The brand, little did I know, was created by someone I know and that person is our guest today on So Money, Mia Saini Dutch Nowski. |
| 1:16.0 | Her company, which she co-founded with her friend Laura Lizzowski, |
| 1:20.0 | has been dubbed the Warby Parker of Men's Grooming, |
| 1:23.0 | and it was created after Mia and Laura |
| 1:25.9 | won the Regional 2016 Harvard Business School |
| 1:29.2 | New Venture Challenge. |
| 1:31.5 | They then spent a year in research and development and voila, |
| 1:35.2 | ors and Alps was born. And all the while, I didn't know the brainchild behind |
| 1:39.3 | this product was my old colleague Mia. She and I worked at the Street.com we sat across from each other |
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