Flipping Over Veggie Burgers with Actual Veggies' Hailey Swartz

The CPG Guys

Jun 7 2023 • 46 mins

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Hailey Swartz, co-founder of Actual Veggies, a manufacturer of chef-crafted, fresh & refrigerated burgers that celebrate vegetables instead of trying to mask them.

Follow Hailey Swartz on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haileyswartz/
Follow Actual Veggies on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/actual-veggies/
Follow Actual veggies online at: https://actualveggies.com/

Hailey answers these questions:

1) Hailey, your career has some elite brands in your background but you decided to be an entrepreneur. Take us through the years at AOL. Alibaba, to co-founding strata - and now as Co-CEO & Co-founder of Actual Veggies. What advice would you give to someone early in their career in this space seeking to follow in your footsteps from corporate to entrepreneurship?
2) How did Actual veggies get founded - tell us about your co-founder and how you split your two roles? What is the role of education and content in the brands mission?
3) As a female leader trying to grow and compete with giants in the food space, how does your everyday thinking go - what drives you and what constitutes success? How do you interact with retail everyday?
4)Take us through the portfolio of choices a consumer has with you. What makes each product unique and why is it better than the rest available in supermarkets and online?
5) Hailey, your career has some elite brands in your background but you decided to be an entrepreneur. Take us through the years at AOL. Alibaba, to co-founding strata - and now as Co-CEO & Co-founder of Actual Veggies. What advice would you give to someone early in their career in this space seeking to follow in your footsteps from corporate to entrepreneurship?
6) How did Actual veggies get founded - tell us about your co-founder and how you split your two roles? What is the role of education and content in the brands mission?
7) As a female leader trying to grow and compete with giants in the food space, how does your everyday thinking go - what drives you and what constitutes success? How do you interact with retail everyday?
8) Take us through the portfolio of choices a consumer has with you. What makes each product unique and why is it better than the rest available in supermarkets and online?

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