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E031: Saasha Celestial-One on being a Female Tech Founder and fighting the Climate Crisis

Ep. 31

Saasha Celestial-One is the Co-Founder of Olio - the Number 1 Free Sharing App.

Saasha is part of the solution to fighting the climate crisis, and with technology is actively campaigning to educate and inspire individuals and families around the world to reduce food waste and landfill.

 

We talk about female entrepreneurship, community, remote working, and gamification. All very much being a big part of the success behind Olio for employees and the 6 million users worldwide.


Topics:

  • Best friends and new Moms
  • Searching for a business problem
  • Sharing unwanted items
  • Co-Founding a tech business
  • Female Founded Team
  • The Founders Dilemma - book
  • Female founders get less than 1% of available venture capital
  • Full-time Female Entrepreneurs
  • Olio, from day one has offered fully remote working
  • Gamification - rewards for in-app achievements
  • Behaviour Change
  • Early Adopters and Customer Segmentation
  • Normalising behaviour change
  • Feel-good sharing factor
  • Technology bringing communities back together
  • Focus on business food waste
  • 75,000 Food Waste Heroes in the UK
  • Food waste counts for 10% of global carbon emissions
  • Number 1 most impactful thing we can do to address the climate crisis is reduce food waste - Project Drawdown
  • Extending the functionality of the Olio app

 

If your business canteen has surplus food waste at the end of the day, get in touch with Olio.

 

Saasha Celestial-One: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saasha-celestial-one-929390/

 

OLIO: https://olioex.com/

https://www.instagram.com/olio.app/

 

Recommended book -The Founders Dilemma: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304

 

Project Drawdown: https://drawdown.org/

 

Lou: https://www.instagram.com/lou.temlett/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisetemlett/

 

LOUTECH - find out more: https://www.loutech.co.uk/

 

MUSIC CREDIT:

ARTIST: Maleki Ram | ALBUM: The Ghost at the End of the World | TRACK: The Rush

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-rush/1098113666?i=1098113677

 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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