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The Story of a Brand Show

TOP - New Standard in Feminine Hygiene Care

The Story of a Brand Show

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.9147 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of this Feature, Thyme Sullivan and Denielle Finkelstein, Co-Founders of The Organic Project or TOP, continue sharing their story of building the new standard in feminine hygiene care.
 
In Part 2, Thyme and Denielle discuss Their success with their PR strategy, Why they dressed up as Tampons, Why tampon monopolies avoid transparency, Why they want to build a brand without fear-mongering but more to give women a choice, The challenge in launching a plant-based applicator tampon, The TOP Moat, Why they consider their competitor's peers instead, Their entrepreneurial role models, What happened when Megan Rapinoe soccer star met the TOP Founders, and so much more. 
 
Join us while Ramon Vela interviews Thyme and Denielle and listen to them share the inside story of their brand.
 
For more on TOP visit: https://toporganicproject.com/
 
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Recorded at Retention Science Studios, this is not your average entrepreneur or e-commerce

0:10.9

podcast, and he's not your average host.

0:14.4

This is The Story of a Brand with your host, Ramon Vela.

0:21.0

You know, when we really started to establish the brand,

0:25.6

obviously the sort of the cost of entry for us was that just our product was organic.

0:30.2

That was absolutely critical.

0:32.4

But that really was like our number one.

0:34.7

And then as we started to really dig in deeper,

0:39.0

there were two other key factors in when it came to the conversation around periods number one which you've talked a lot about

0:45.4

is just the environmental piece so there's the state sustainability piece but there's also which

0:50.2

people don't realize that feminine care um 20 billion period products end up in landfills every single year.

0:57.3

And that's just in the United States.

0:58.9

So the majority of what is being used by women is single-use plastic.

1:03.7

And so the environmental impact is massive.

1:06.0

And so that's a really, really important piece for us to really tackle as we continue to build the business.

1:17.6

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