#218 - Tessa Clarke - Co-Founder & CEO of OLIO - Share More, Waste Less

Tessa Clarke is Co-Founder & CEO of OLIO • Share More, Waste Less, a free app tackling the problem of food waste by connecting neighbours with each other, and volunteers with local businesses, so that surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. Since launching 4 years ago, 2.5 million people have joined OLIO and together they’ve shared over 9 million portions of food taken 27 million car miles off the road  and saved 1 billion litres of water Tessa started her career as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group and then spent 10 years as a digital Managing Director in the media, retail and financial services sectors. She met her co-founder Saasha Celestial-One whilst they were studying for their MBAs at Stanford. Tessa is passionate about the sharing economy as a solution for a sustainable world, and about ‘profit with purpose’ as the next business paradigm. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares the real stories from Founders who run inspiring and exciting companies. Listen to more and subscribe at https://stevenhaggerty.com/founders365