Goldbelly’s Vanessa Torrivilla Talks Food, Fashion, Tech & Ina Garten’s Coconut Cake

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Torrivilla never envisioned a future in the food world. A UI/UX design pro, she started dating a serious foodie named Joe Ariel who missed some of his favorite local eats from his college days, and soon the idea for Goldbelly started to materialize: “I went from wanting to help my boyfriend with some free design to caring about this from a very deep place,” she says. “This” is now a powerhouse food marketplace with almost 1,000 brands represented on its platform, and Vanessa is co-founder + chief product and creative officer. She joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about the company’s start-up days, how they’ve raised more than $133 million in funding from folks including Danny Meyer, and why culinary superstars like Ina Garten, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Mashama Bailey have joined the Goldbelly family. Vanessa also shares her professional pivots, why she studied engineering in college, how her creative awakening came about, and why her mother’s advice about joy still resonates with her today. Thank you to OpenTable for supporting today’s episode. March 1st is the deadline to subscribe and get all four 2024 issues! Hosted by Kerry Diamond Produced by Catherine Baker and Jenna Sadhu Edited by Jenna Sadhu Editorial Assistant Londyn Crenshaw Recorded at Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center Radio Cherry Bombe is a production of The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network. Subscribe to our newsletter and check out past episodes and transcripts here. More on Vanessa: Instagram, Goldbelly More on Kerry: Instagram

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0:00.0	Hi, girls are all fired up.
0:07.0	Hi, everyone, you are listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming to you from New Stand Studios at Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York City. I'm the founder and editor of Cherry Bomb Magazine. Today's guest is Vanessa Toravilla, co-founder, chief product and creative officer of Goldbelly. Goldbelly is the fascinating food e-commerce platform that led to you
0:39.6	order food from your favorite restaurants and culinary personalities across the country, from
0:43.7	Mashama Bailey's The Gray and Savannah, to Ina Garten. Goldbelly started as a simple idea over 10 years
0:49.9	ago, then the pandemic hit, and it became a lifeline for many food businesses.
0:58.2	Vanessa has been part of this incredible startup story from the beginning, and I'm thrilled to welcome her to Radio Cherrybaum for the very first time. We had a great chat, so stay tuned.
1:04.1	This episode of Radio Cherry Bomb is supported by Open Table. We are excited to announce that
1:08.7	Open Table is once again partnering with Cherry Bomb on Sit
1:11.7	With Us, our community dinner series highlighting amazing female chefs and restaurateurs in the Cherry Bomb
1:17.3	Network. Tickets for our next three dinners will be on sale soon. We're coming to Miami and
1:23.0	Philadelphia this March. How does it work? You can come solo and sit at a Cherrybaum community table,
1:28.6	or bring a friend or two, and we will seat you together. Tickets are available exclusively on
1:33.2	OpenTable. I hope you all have your OpenTable app on your phones. A portion of the proceeds from each
1:38.4	dinner will benefit a local charity chosen by the chef. Learn more about the OpenTable and CherryBom
1:43.6	Sit With Us series at Cherrybom.com.
1:46.7	What else is going on? The cutoff to subscribe to our print magazine and receive all four
1:51.0	2024 issues is Friday, March 1st. That deadline is coming soon. All subscribers get free shipping,
1:57.4	so don't delay. Our spring issue is all about icons and our summer issue is all
2:01.9	about Paris. Go to cherrybom.com to subscribe. Now, let's check in with today's guest.
2:08.5	Vanessa Toravilla, welcome to Radio Cherrybaum. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here.
2:12.9	I am so excited because I had actually been looking for you during the pandemic because I knew how important
2:19.0	gold belly was to the industry and continues to be. And I was like, I know there's a really smart
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