1 hr 2 min
From Farm to Fortune with Christina Stembel, Founder and CEO of Farmgirl Flowers Stairway to CEO
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- Entrepreneurship
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Farmgirl Flowers is a national floral eCommerce brand that features beautiful hand curated arrangements and bouquets wrapped in their signature upcycled burlap coffee sacks. In this episode, Founder and CEO, Christina Stembel, shares with us her incredible journey from growing up on a farm in Indiana to moving to New York City to pursue acting, to working as the Director of Alumni Relations at Stanford Law School, to launching Farmgirl Flowers from her apartment using just her savings. What started as a one woman bootstrapped operation has blossomed into a team of over 160 people that spans 2 continents and 6 distribution centers. We talk about her experience being rejected by investors, how COVID affected her business, and how she's defied all the odds in building a self-funded flower empire expected to hit over $100M in revenue by the end of this year.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Farmgirl Flowers is a national floral eCommerce brand that features beautiful hand curated arrangements and bouquets wrapped in their signature upcycled burlap coffee sacks. In this episode, Founder and CEO, Christina Stembel, shares with us her incredible journey from growing up on a farm in Indiana to moving to New York City to pursue acting, to working as the Director of Alumni Relations at Stanford Law School, to launching Farmgirl Flowers from her apartment using just her savings. What started as a one woman bootstrapped operation has blossomed into a team of over 160 people that spans 2 continents and 6 distribution centers. We talk about her experience being rejected by investors, how COVID affected her business, and how she's defied all the odds in building a self-funded flower empire expected to hit over $100M in revenue by the end of this year.
1 hr 2 min