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Building a Shopper-First Platform in a Retail-Driven Industry | Andy Ellwood | 373
Andy Ellwood is a repeat founder whose career took him from early-stage mobile startups acquired by Facebook and Google, through eight years building Basket.com, to shutting it down during the pandemic — and ultimately back into the arena with Stretch, an AI-powered grocery platform built to give families price transparency, shopping intelligence, and an advocate at checkout.
In this conversation, Andy shares the through-lines connecting his entire career: curiosity as a competitive edge, falling in love with problems instead of solutions, and the hard-earned wisdom of setting non-negotiables…
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