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Million by 30: Iseult Ward

Business Daily

BBC

Business

4.4816 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this series you will hear from six people from all over the world who’ve hit that million milestone before their 30th birthday. Our second guest is Iseult Ward from Ireland, who tells Sam Fenwick how she started building her social enterprise FoodCloud while still at university in Dublin. Iseult and her team make more than a million meals every month from food that would otherwise end up in the bin. Hear how she started out working with small market traders, scaled up to work with huge multi-nationals in multiple countries and how she deals with imposter syndrome. Presenter: Sam Fenwick Producer: Helen Thomas (Photo: Iseult Ward. Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

I had this secret.

0:02.9

I robbed banks in my spare time.

0:06.4

Lives Less Ordinary from the BBC World Service.

0:09.7

This is not a good thing to do because police are after you.

0:14.9

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

0:20.5

Hello, I'm Sam Fenwick and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

0:26.1

How do you make a million before you turn 30?

0:29.8

In our new series, we're speaking to six people from all over the world who've hit that milestone.

0:35.4

Today we hear from Islt Ward.

0:37.8

At the end of last year, we reached an amazing milestone of 140 million meals equivalent

0:43.0

distributed since we started.

0:45.1

But what was more impressive for us was that 50% of those meals happened in the last two years.

0:52.1

So at a time with extraordinary disruption,

0:54.9

to have actually seen so much food being redistributed

0:57.8

through our solutions here in Ireland,

0:59.8

but also by our partners using our technology internationally as well,

1:03.0

as something that we're incredibly proud of.

1:07.0

Islt makes more than a million meals every month

1:09.7

from food that would otherwise have ended up in the bin.

1:13.8

We'll hear how she built her social enterprise food cloud, starting out dealing with small market traders and now working with huge multinational companies.

1:26.1

I started by asking Isolt what set her off on this path.

1:31.2

Over 30% of food is lost or wasted across the global food system.

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