Ep. 11: Sculpting Your Business with Operations Mastery with John Schiaroli, President and Founder of Armatura Company

The Startup CPG Podcast

Startup CPG

Startup, Food, Business, Beverage, Cpg, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

John Schiaroli loves using his years of experience in operations to support young brands as they are being molded. He builds operational frameworks for growth, helping young brands create scalable, precise and effective backbones to make sure the business works. John's experience ranges from years at multinational brands like Coke and Pepsi, to more recently leading supply chain operations for brands like RUNA, WTRMLN WTR, and Milk Bar. On this episode, John walks me through the most important lessons for effective operations strategy, whether you're building a new brand with a few hundred thousand in the bank, or innovating at a large company, you'll find this episode helpful. For a deeper dive into operations with John, check out his podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIqwVWUoQis.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Startup CPG podcast. Startup CPG is a launchpad and community for small brands.
0:10.9	We host interactive events and serve as a resource for insights and expertise to build a brand that's better for people and better for the planet.
0:19.7	On today's episode, we talk all things operations.
0:23.6	This is really an ops 101 primer.
0:26.1	What's important when building your business from the ground up to consider when you're
0:31.7	thinking through your ops strategy?
0:34.1	What I love teaching is the simplicity of this business.
0:40.7	I'm not saying it's easy because it's not easy. It takes a lot of drive, it takes a lot of tenacity, adaptation.
0:44.4	It doesn't need to be as complicated as you think.
0:49.0	I have on today's episode John Chiroli, who has years of ops experience from large multinational
0:56.6	corporations like Coke and Pepsi.
0:59.1	He's been the VP of Operations at Milk Bar, helped grow watermelon water.
1:04.0	He's now the president and founder of Armitura Company and just loves using his years
1:10.5	of experience to support young brands as
1:13.2	they're just being molded. I think it's really important that you surround yourself with people
1:19.8	that have been around before in the CPG space in every capacity, certainly operations for sure,
1:26.9	but in every capacity from an
1:28.9	advisory point of view.
1:30.6	He builds operational frameworks for growth, and he is going to walk us through some
1:35.0	ways of thinking through operations, Ops 101.
1:40.4	Welcome, John Sheroli.
1:42.7	Thank you.
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