🔍 What You’ll Learn:
🧠About the Guest:
Oriane Juncker is the founder and CEO of Spotz, an e-commerce and community platform that empowers mothers to earn on their own terms by selling products and services directly to one another. With a background in genetics, business strategy, and medical affairs in the pharmaceutical industry, Oriane made a radical pivot following maternity discrimination. She built Spotz from her living room while raising kids, bootstrapping the entire way. Her business now reaches over 28,000 members and reflects a bold belief: that mothers are a powerful economic force—and it’s time we designed systems that reflect it.
đź“Ś Episode Highlights:
00:00 From genetics to business school: Oriane’s nonlinear career path
04:00 The realization that she was “too businessy” for a lab
07:00 Why she left corporate pharma—and the comment that changed everything
12:00 Spotz is born: a community-powered answer to gendered work discrimination
17:00 What’s a social business and why does it matter?
20:00 Meditation, OneNote, and vision-driven planning
22:00 From vision to wireframes: building a platform without technical expertise
25:00 Why keeping your job as long as possible is underrated advice
28:00 Choosing your MVP wisely: strategy over perfection
30:00 Getting the first 3,500 products and 1,200 vendors—by hand
34:00 Bootstrapping, burnout, and growing while raising a family
36:00 Why it took 2.5 years to get the pitch “right”
40:00 Funding realities: impact investors vs. venture capital
43:00 Hiring mistakes, cash flow crashes, and what she’d do differently
47:00 Her future role: from CEO to social cause ambassador
50:00 Hard work, soul work, and building a business with integrity
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