Adam Lowry (Method) - Method to Success

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2011

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Adam Lowry, co-founder of Method Products, has spent the last decade developing sustainable products that caused major disruption in the consumer goods sector. Lowry offers many of principles that guide Method's path to success and he describes the different obsessions the company keeps to deliver on its promises to customers.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	Really excited today to have one of our own here, Adam Lowry, the chief greenskeeper and co-founder
0:25.7	of Method Soap, who also is a Stanford grad class of 1996 chemical engineering, right?
0:33.6	So without further ado, I am going to send it straight over to Adam.
0:38.3	Take it away.
0:39.3	All right.
0:40.3	Thank you, Heidi, and thanks everybody for having me.
0:42.3	Thanks for coming.
0:43.3	I'm going to tell you a little bit about the story of method today, and I'm going to try.
0:47.3	I'm going to bounce around to a couple of different topics that I think are interesting in the way that business can be used today as an agent of positive social and environmental change,
0:55.9	and that's going to touch technology and creativity and a bunch of different things.
1:00.0	The story of method, like a lot of businesses, starts with the frustration of its founders.
1:06.5	In this case, it's myself and my high school buddy, Eric Ryan, who's the guy on the right up there.
1:12.6	Before I started Method about 10 years ago with Eric,
1:15.6	I was a climate scientist.
1:17.6	I actually worked about a seven iron from here
1:19.6	at the Carnegie Institution over on Panama,
1:22.6	just on the other side of the parking structure out here.
1:25.6	And while I was at Carnegie, I had been a product designer
1:30.3	before that.
1:31.3	And at Carnegie, I came there because I was really
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