How Bitcoin Helped This Small Business Owner Bridge The International Gap
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Founder/CEO, Elyse Petersen, of Tealet, runs a cutting edge, online tea company, whose success is derived from a passion for tea, crypto technology and overall global wellness. Elyse shares her experiences of the trials, tribulations and eventual triumphs of doing business across borders. Part of her goal in making Tealet a success was to find the answer to one of the biggest problems she noticed: the end profit the local farmer was receiving after foreign transactions fees and everyone else got their cut. Elyse saw an opportunity here to use the power of bitcoin to overcome some of these obstacles, cutting those fees and in the end bridging the gap between consumer and grower.
BIO:
ELYSE PETERSEN – FOUNDER/CEO
Elyse Petersen is a Global Tea Ambassador with the International Tea Farms Alliance. She has spent time working with tea farmers in Wazuka, Kyoto, Japan. This experience has inspired her to help tea culture across the U.S. and around the world. Petersen is an experienced international development worker in the area of food security, natural resource management, and sustainable food preservation, having served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa and Antigua and Barbuda, Eastern Caribbean.
Elyse graduated from Shidler College of Business with a Japan-focused M.B.A and from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona with a B.S. in Food Science and Technology. You can learn about Elyse's passion for collaboration in this talk she gave at TEDx Honolulu: A Mango in the Sun.
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| 0:44.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, round the corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:51.0 | Future Technologies ways to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this |
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| 1:10.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and red evening, depending on where you are in the world. This is |
| 1:14.4 | Tracy Murdoch on behalf of Richard Jacobs here at future tech podcast. Today I have a |
| 1:19.4 | very special guest from tealet.com. Elise Peterson. |
| 1:23.2 | Elise, welcome and thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:25.4 | Hi, thank you for having me. |
| 1:27.4 | So why don't we get started with telling me a little bit about TELIT.. Okay, Tlet is online B2B marketplace for tea farmers. So we allow |
| 1:40.2 | tea growers from around the world to create profiles, list their teas, and then we handle |
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