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570: Your Toothbrush is GROSS - They Fixed it and Made MILLIONS | SURI
In this episode, Mark Rushmore and Gyve Safavi, co-founders of SURI (Sustainable Rituals), share how they turned a simple personal care item into a sustainable, design-led movement—challenging legacy players like Oral-B and Philips.
They share:
• Why the electric toothbrush was overdue for disruption
• The intentional product and packaging design that drove early virality
• Their approach to building a mission-led brand without greenwashing
• How they scaled operations and manufacturing for a regulated hardware product
• The mindset shifts needed to build a physical product business with lean…
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