Creating footwear for the needy. Shriyans Bhandari CEO of Greensole & Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Social Entrepreneur.
One billion underprivileged people have no access to footwear. This inspired my guest Shriyans Bhandari to start Greensole.
This social enterprise takes used sneakers which would otherwise end up in a landfill and refurbishes them into sandals that get donated to hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries in India.
Shriyans talks about his amazing journey from designing and manufacturing his first shoe to receiving the Forbes 30 under 30 social entrepreneurship award and receiving a letter from Barak Obama and much much more so please enjoy the show.
In this conversation we also talk about:
- 150,000 pairs of footwear being upcycled
— Retail model
— How it works
— Working with corporate partners — Skechers, Adidas
— Dreaming of being on the cover of Forbes
— Being 20 years old running a factory with no manufacturing experience.
— Being in it for the long term.
— Every day is a new day!
— Meeting his co-founder running
— Favourite pair of shoes!
— Reading spiritual books
— Don’t look at the final result.
and much more!
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