Welcome to the Startup CPG podcast.

I'm your host, Jennifer Yephas Blundell.

Today I'll be chatting with Alison Nathanson, co-founder of steeped cocktails.

Allison and her partner, Chloe, are making it easier for you to create restaurant-caliber cocktails

in the comfort of your own home for the

fraction of the cost. Not shaken, not stirred, but steeped. Take a listen. Hi Allison. Hi, Jennifer. So

great to be here. Thanks for having me. Of course. Tell me a little bit about who you are and steep.

Great. Love to.

So my name is Allison Nathanson.

I'm one of the co-founders of Steept. We're a two women's show.

It's myself and my co-founder, Chloe O'Coyne.

We met in business school at Harvard two years ago when we started at school there and have been working on Steept full

time since we graduated this past May in 2020. The way Steeped kind of came about is Chloe and I

met the first night of business school and we went out for dinner and, you know, went through

those typical conversations. What have you done before school? What are you looking to do?

And we actually had really similar paths and future aspirations. So we both were previously in

retail. I worked at Macy's doing product development and marketing strategy. And Chloe was at

Accenture, doing retail consulting and then at Michael Coors. So we both were coming from retail,

but just have always loved food and beverage. We're kind of, we're our go-to friends for

recommendations on restaurants and drinks and always really wanted to pursue something

in that space and wanted to do something entrepreneurial. So we kind of knew we had those

shared interests from the start and instantly became really close friends. And Harvard has a

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