{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9475d117-fcd4-4915-a6f3-923941e7aa0d/623de7e3dc5cd9001589dc06?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Bonus content: sharing app Olio's co-founder, Saasha Celestial-One ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61ba05fc1a8cbed4343cf0e6/5883ea1e-0ebe-4d27-9746-2bf0605b19e6.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Is it possible to create a multi-million pound business without losing your ideals; even the ones you’ve held since childhood?</p><p>This is An Invitation to Meet... Saasha Celestial-One, co-founder of sharing app Olio. Originally a way for communities to share unwanted food, it’s now expanded to include much more.</p><p>Listen to the full episode <a href=\"https://pod.fo/e/10d828\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">HERE.</a></p><p>Saasha tells us about the negotiations to raise $43 million dollars in round B funding last year, and how she “stalked” a Tesco boss to secure a deal helping the supermarket distribute surplus food.</p><p>And we chat about her early days growing up in Iowa with her “hippy entrepreneur” parents, who instilled in her the value of not letting things go to waste.</p>","author_name":"The Evening Standard"}