Olipop Co-Founder & President David Lester | Breaking Your Way to Better Outcomes (2022)

About this episode

This week, we're revisiting our inspiring conversation with David Lester, Co-founder at Olipop. 

There’s an alchemy to relationships, including the ones between co-founders. David Lester, co-founder at good-for-you-soda company, OLIPOP, first heard about his future business partner, Ben Goodwin, while he was quitting his 10-year job at global beverage giant Diageo. His then boss thought they’d work well together. The first meeting between entrepreneurs was memorable as Ben showed up with a bag of home-made soda. The pair went on to run a kefir beverage startup, followed by OLIPOP. Packed with healthy prebiotics and a tenth the sugar of regular, OLIPOP brilliantly markets taste, health and nostalgia while drawing 50% of revenues through online channels, just a few of Lester’s marketing feats.  

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Soda psychology is grounded in our earliest memories.
• Three-quarters of the population is trying to make healthy adjustments. 
• When something seems stupid, that’s your cue to figure out a better way.
• That humility will take you from knowing nothing to expertise.
• Data science surrounds us, but your soul processes the insights

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