The Tartare Project

The Tartare Project

There's no shortcut to building a brand - whether it's a company, a movement or for you personally. Every Thursday, The Tartare Project sits down with founders, artists, restaurateurs, personalities, investors and anyone else building interesting brands, both large and small, exploring candid (... or, dare we say, raw - get it?) conversations highlighting all of the failures, successes and everything in between along the way. The Tartare Project is hosted by NYC-based brand focused investor, Phil Toronto ✌🏼 Find us on Instagram: @one37pm @philtoronto

Episodes

May 6, 2021 47 mins

This week’s edition of The Tartare Project features Windmill co-founder Michael Mayer.  

A consumer electronics company, Windmill is a small business headquartered in New York. Toronto and Mayer discuss his career journey in this 45-minute conversation

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This week’s episode of the Tartare Project hosted by Phil Toronto features Jacob Zuppke, President and COO of Autopets. Autopets is most known for their innovative pet care products such as the ‘Litter Robot,’ and the company aims to deliver meaningful insights through their high-grade products to assist in making better decisions for pets. Priding themselves on their development, marketing, and elite customer service, Aut...

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On this week’s episode of The Tartare Project hosted by Phil Toronto, Emily Schildt, founder and CEO of Pop Up Grocer, joined the show to discuss her meteoric journey in entrepreneurship.


Follow Pop-up Grocer on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/popup.grocer/ 

and follow Emily on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/emilyschildt/

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This week’s episode of The Tartare Project, host Phil Toronto welcomes Annabel Lawee, founder of Breeze, company that serves specialized airport food packages. 


You can find Annabel on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alawee12/ 

You can find Breeze on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/flywithbreeze/

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The week’s episode of The Tartare Project hosted by Phil Toronto welcomes special guest Aishwarya Iyer, founder and CEO of Brightland.

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This week on the Tartare Project, host Phil Toronto speaks with Catharine Dockery of Vice Ventures. The two discuss the early stages of her career, some of the obstacles she faced along the way, and the development of Vice Ventures See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This week The Tartare Project welcomes Daniel Soares of Alimentari Flaneur. The two talk about Soares’ idea to build a company focused on selling obscure produce, how his journey in real estate led him to where he is today, and more in a 30 minute conversation.


You can find Daniel on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/flaneur.le/

And Alimentari Flaneur on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alimentariflan...

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In this episode of the Tartare Project, Phil Toronto speaks with Jason Karp, investor turned co-founder and CEO of HumanCo. His brand just launched their pizza roll, wonderfully named "Snow Days," with the intention of invoking the joy and freedom of childhood's snow-induced sabbaticals. He packs an immense amount of knowledge about entrepreneurship, overall wellness and the food industry into the valuable episode.

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March 3, 2020 55 mins

Sara Dietschy (rhymes with peachy) is a YouTuber based in New York City with over 550,000 subscribers on her self-titled channel where she creates and uploads tech reviews, docu-series and vlogs. Through her work, Sara explores the intersection of technology and creativity. Sara rocks the YouTube scene with her contagious zest for life and absolute obsession for tech. During college she wanted to build guitar amplifie...

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Ariel Arce is the 32 year-old New York entrepreneur, also known as the Champagne Empress of Greenwich Village and Nightlife Hitmaker, behind Tokyo Record Bar, Air’s Champagne Parlor, Niche Niche, and Special Club, all of which opened within the past two years on MacDougal Street. Ariel’s passions for wine, dinner parties and music shine throughout her spaces. Each has a distinctive identity and offers guests ...

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Tony Fragogiannis is the founder of Brooklyn Hot Dog Company.  Tony was born and raised in New York and after graduating from St. John's University decided to move down to Atlanta and go into the hospitality business with his brother.  After being in the restaurant/nightclub business for 9 years, it was time to come back to New York.

Not satisfied with the current selection and varieties of hot dogs in this ...

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Ashli is the Founder + CEO of Sunday Forever a 3 ½  year old lifestyle brand based out of NYC. Ashli describes Sunday Forever as your one-stop good vibe shop, offering a curated selection of “Nice Things" from kimono style robes to candles, sage and lighter sets, crystals and handmade protective red string bracelets. The brand has been featured in Forbes, Domino ,Beauty Independent, Allure and more. Prior to starting ...

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Monfefo first began in Justine's kitchen in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York in 2013. She went from selling the first batch to her local deli to being sold across the northeast, Texas and California today.


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Paul is passionate about building a business around people—and after falling in love with coffee at a convention in D.C., he never looked back. As an avid yogi, husband, and father, Paul brings an unparalleled passion and care to Birch. You can find him roasting small batches at our LIC roast house on Wednesdays and Fridays.

What started as a mere desire to have a comfortable place to go and converse with friends and stran...

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Alexandra Friedman is the co-founder of LOLA, the first lifelong brand for your body. LOLA aims to address women’s reproductive health with a commitment to product transparency and a community built on candid dialogue about all of the things we don’t openly talk about. Before founding LOLA with her co-founder Jordana, Alex led analytics at Flurry Analytics (acquired by Yahoo in August 2014) and was a consultant at Boston C...

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Since its inception in 2009, Stang has been the architect of The Infatuation’s editorial voice, creative vision, and marketing strategy. Today his role still encompasses all of those things, but also includes pushing the company forward into new arenas, including the creation and launch of Text Rex, EEEEEATSCON, The Infatuation’s food festival, and the company’s ...

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Andrés Modak is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Snowe, a direct-to-consumer brand building the home brand for the next generation. Snowe creates essentials for your entire home that are irresistible as humanly possible, including bedding, bath linens, & tabletop essentials and more..Since launching 4 years ago, Snowe has amassed a cult following for their award-winning products and singular brand and been heavily lauded...

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Emily Abbate is a freelance fitness writer and editor living in New York City. When she's not tapping words to laptop, the certified trainer, run coach, and seven-time marathoner is working on her podcast Hurdle, which talks to everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how they got through tough times—hurdles of sorts—by leaning into wellness.


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Turned off by the yoga scene in NYC, Sarah created the yoga experience she was seeking out: a no mirrors, candlelit, heated vinyasa flow set to a hip-hop playlist. She held her first pop-up class in Brooklyn in 2013 and has been opening studios across the US ever since. With 10 studios opened to date across New York & LA (and even more on deck in the coming months), Sarah has developed Y7 into a lifestyle brand that to...

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Michael Mignano is the co-founder of Anchor, the company democratizing audio by enabling anyone to easily create, distribute, and monetize a podcast. Through Michael's leadership, Anchor has grown to power more than 40 percent of all new podcasts on the market and was acquired by Spotify in 2019 — enabling podcasters of all experience levels and walks of life to have their voices heard. Michael's work has always focused on...

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