Sashee Chandran - Tea Drops

Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 3 p.m.

Today\u2019s guest is Sashee Chandran, founder of Tea Drops. She found a way to eliminate the tea bag by pressing tea into fun little shapes. Just drop them in hot water, et viol\xe0! You\u2019ve got tea. What\u2019s most impressive about Sashee\u2019s story is not that she found a way to eliminate the tea bag, but that she shows how to build a successful company through incremental progress and learning from mistakes along the way. There was no \u201caha!\u201d moment, just a series of steps that eventually led to her running a national brand and raising millions of dollars in VC funding.

Listen in as we cover everything from why she initially wanted to sell customizable made-to-order cookies, tips for digital marketing both in the present and future, and how Chrissy Tiegen became her company\u2019s biggest fan.