I LOST MONEY INVESTING IN PLANTMADE Ft. TONI | 90s Baby Show
90s Baby Show
90s Baby Show
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
The new Plantmade owner & investor Toni Fola-Alade sits down with Fred Santana, Temi Alchemy and VP to respectfully discuss what happened with Plantmade. The founder stepped away from the troubled skincare business late 2025. The company founded during the pandemic by Ama Amo-Agyei fell into administration owing £1.8 million. We speak with the new owner to understand how this all happened to make sure the business remained black owner and loyal to it's loyal fan base.
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - COMING UP
02:00 - THE BBQ GUESTLIST
09:00 - INTRO
10:00 - £120K ON SCHOOL OR £40K ON A WEDDING
30:00 - THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET
01:08:00 - VENTURE CAPITAL EXPLAINED
01:30:00 - DID YOU STEAL PLANTMADE?
01:42:00 - HOW DID PLANTMADE END UP IN £2,000,000 IN DEBT?
01:53:00 - HOW MUCH DID YOU LOSE INVESTING IN PLANTMADE?
02:07:00 - THE SOCIAL MEDIA STATEMENTS
02:21:00 - THE DIFFICULTY RUNNING PLANTMADE IN THE EARLY STAGES
02:24:00 - THE FUTURE OF PLANTMADE
02:53:00 - TRIVIA
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know, go. |
| 0:03.0 | You're changing. |
| 0:04.0 | You want to go, bro? |
| 0:07.0 | I won't lie, I'll lose. |
| 0:10.0 | It's been alongside. |
| 0:16.0 | Good down! |
| 0:19.0 | I know many people's been transformative for. |
| 0:22.6 | Let's look at what it happens. |
| 0:25.1 | So yeah, that was back into 2024. |
| 0:28.5 | And then coming into 2025 is when we started to like seriously look at a deal in terms of how could we structure things. |
| 0:34.0 | And the financials I saw were a business that was had great potential, |
| 0:42.0 | but it was, it was in a difficult place. And I think initially I came into it feeling like |
| 0:49.0 | this is going to be easy. What I do is raise money and deploy money in great businesses. |
| 0:52.9 | This is a great fast growing business. This should be a piece of cake. |
| 0:56.0 | And when I got to work closely and every deal is different, I was like, okay, this is a difficult |
| 1:01.0 | deal to get done, but it's a business that I really believe in and has great potential. |
| 1:06.0 | So if we can help sort out working on some of the things of the things that need to be you know |
| 1:12.4 | brought up to certain standards some of the liabilities that were on the |
| 1:16.2 | balance sheet then it shouldn't be shouldn't be a problem |
| 1:19.4 | can you get a little bit of because I feel like you're being a little vague |
| 1:23.1 | probably on purpose but is there anything where you can divulge a bit more because I'm kind |
| 1:28.9 | of like, why was it difficult? Yeah, if it's, do you know what I mean? Yeah, so I think at the, at the time, fully transparently, so in, in, you can go and read that the numbers are there to be read online and there's been headlines around it, right? So to answer your question directly did I still plant made. Let me do that and then come back here. Is that fair? |
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