Sarah Moret is the founder & CEO of Curie, a natural deodorant and personal care brand as seen in Allure, InStyle, Shape Magazine and Well + Good. Sarah founded the brand while working in venture capital at CrossCut Ventures and scaled it as a bootstrapped solo female founder in the early days into a business that is now backed by top angel investors like Mark Cuban and is sold in retailers like Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s and Anthropologie.
In this conversation we discuss:
- Sarah’s crazy Shark Tank story
- Founder resilience
- Lifestyle businesses vs. VC-backed companies
- Dealing with rejection as a founder
- Going all in
- Getting over the fear of being “cringe”
- Creating from passion vs. creating for the algorithm
- The media double standard around female founders
- And more
Find Sarah’s Instagram here & Twitter here
Check out Curie here
