Climate CEOs (formerly Entrepreneurs for Impact): Scaling Climate Tech Startups LiquiDonate: VC-Backed Software Tackling $800B in Retail Waste
LiquiDonate matches unsold retail inventory with nonprofits, saving retailers millions, reducing waste, and optimizing donations with smart algorithms.
LiquiDonate is a VC-backed software platform that matches and moves reclaimable items (such as online returns and unsold inventory) into the hands of nonprofits who need them, thereby saving retailers millions of dollars and keeping tons of waste out of landfills.
Disney is a social impact innovator who started as employee number 15 at PostMates. She helped grow the company's customer service and Civic Labs divisions and won awards from TIME Magazine and FAST company. She’s also a feminist, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, and an animal rights activist working to be a better-practicing ally for marginalized communities.
In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways and much more.
- How online returns and excess inventory cost retailers $800B per year in losses
- Why you should create a Google Doc that tracks your hundreds of small and big wins in career and life
- What it’s like being a queer women CEO raising VC investment capital
- How they designed their product matching algorithm and logistics systems to optimize donations, tax credits, and low operating costs
🔗 PODCAST SHOW LINKS:
LiquidDonate - https://liquidonate.com
Disney - https://www.linkedin.com/in/disneypetit
The Leading 100 (recognition for LiquiDonate) - https://the-lead.co/the-leading-100
Fast Company (recognition for LiquiDonate) - https://shorturl.at/9EOy7
Ezra Klein podcast - https://shorturl.at/hWJDa
If Books Could Kill podcast - https://shorturl.at/3R5SO
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Dr. Chris Wedding is the founder of EFI (climate CEO peer groups), cofounder of Terraset (carbon removal), Senior Advisor at Javelin Capital (investment banking), Board member at World Tree (regenerative forestry), Board Advisor at DG Matrix (next-gen power electronics), Duke & UNC professor, ex-private equity investor, ex-investment banker, occasional monk, father of three, 2x ax-throwing champ (huh?), Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2006 (Google it), and super humble guy (as evidenced by this long bio).