Adam Lowry
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Ripple Foods. On 1 show, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Adam Lowry is best known for co-founding the eco-friendly cleaning company Method Products in 2001 and co-authoring the book The Method Method. In 2014, he co-founded Ripple Foods to develop pea-protein-based dairy alternatives.
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17said about them ↓ Everything Adam Lowry said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Making Green Products Solely for Eco-Conscious Shoppers Is Pointless, Says Lowry
“I think it's totally pointless to make a green product for green people, right? They're only about five percent of products in the U.S. Market that are sold are green products. And so if all you're doing is preaching to the converted and the five percent, like…”
Lowry: Legacy CPG copycat green products failed on repeat purchases
“In the short term, it did. But because, you know, they weren't authentic products, they weren't Interesting products. They were just sort of, you know, people would try them once, and they got promoted, so they'd, they'd capture shoppers that way, but then the…”
Lowry: Basic cleaning products do not require professional chemical labs
“You can make cleaning products out of very standard things. Things that you can buy in the grocery store. Like water. You know, things like, yeah, of course, water, vinegar, baking soda. These are relatively simple chemicals that don't require a professional l…”
Lowry: Green products represent only about 5% of US sales
“They're only about five percent of products in the U S market that are sold are green products.”
Lowry: Post-acquisition, Method built a highly sustainable Chicago manufacturing plant
“In this case of selling the business to Ecovair, actually the greatest example of that is we were able to build what's probably the most sustainable manufacturing facility in the whole world in the inner city of Chicago immediately after we sold the business.”
Lowry: Co-Founder Therapy Helps Navigate Divergent Stress Responses
“I'm a big proponent of that because it's what helps you understand this, like this situation that we just talked about, where when things get stressful, Eric talks a lot, and Adam shuts up. Right. And that's two different people responding in different ways th…”
Lowry: Trust turns team conflict into better ideas rather than ego battles
“Conflict is a great thing, because it's where you are able to build an idea into a bigger, better idea, and You're going to have differences of opinion, and trust is what allows you to evaluate that objectively as something that's a better way of solving a pro…”
Lowry: Method built world's most sustainable factory in Chicago post-sale
“And in this case of selling the business to Ecovair, actually the greatest example of that is we were able to build What's probably the most sustainable manufacturing facility in the whole world in the inner city of Chicago immediately after we sold the busine…”
Lowry: Method co-founders each invested $45,000 to start the company
“We each put in 45,000 dollars.”
Lowry: Method secured its first grocery placement in February 2001
“So we got a grocery store at the end of February to say, yeah. Yeah, it was actually February 28th, 2001. So we had bothered this store manager enough that he said, fine, guys, I'm gonna give you space, but you have to get the product here today. This was in B…”
Lowry: Target ordered roughly 25,000 units for Method's initial retail test
“Oh, they bought initially about 25,000.”
Lowry: Method missed sales targets during its initial Target test
“Well, we didn't hit that target as it turns out.”
Lowry: Method reached profitability roughly five years after its founding
“It was about five years in. So – In five, we became profitable.”
Lowry: Method raised roughly $25M before becoming self-funding and profitable
“About twenty-five million.”
Lowry: Method lost millions on its failed Block personal care line
“You know, I don't remember exactly in dollar terms, but it was, you know, it was in the low millions of, you know, an investment that basically an amount of money we lit on fire.”
Lowry: Constructive co-founder relations matter more than getting your way
“The key for us was recognizing that it was way more important for the business That we have a constructive relationship than to get our own individual way”
Adam Lowry: Starting a business is at least a ten-year commitment
“You start a business, that's at least a ten-year commitment.”
Lowry: Legacy Cleaning Products Were Both Ugly and Super Toxic
“Not only are these products really ugly, but did you know they're super toxic as well, right?”
Lowry: Method reached profitability five years after launch
“It was about five years in. So – In five, we became profitable.”
Method Raised Approximately $25 Million Before Reaching Self-Sustaining Profitability
“About twenty-five million.”
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Eric Ryan: Method was the first 'Eco Chic' high-design sustainable brand
“We're going to take credit for it, because we haven't found anybody who did it first, but really the first Eco Chic, a product that was high design and deep sustainability, which is really hard to do, and we were both insistent that it would have these qualiti…”
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2025 4 mentions in 1 episode
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Ripple Foods | 3 | 30 | 80% 4/5 | full record on How I Built This → |