Shazi Visram
Founder and CEO, HealthyBaby. On 1 show, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Visram founded Happy Family Organics in 2003, developing it into a top organic baby food brand in the United States before selling a majority stake to Groupe Danone in 2013. In 2021, she launched HealthyBaby to produce non-toxic diapers and baby care products focused on early childhood neurodevelopment.
1shows
4appearances
45statements
12resolved
4supported
5contradicted
33%fully supported
2said about them ↓ Everything Shazi Visram said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
A VC group demanded 70% equity for a $500,000 seed check
“It was it was 70%. They would own 70%, have every blocking right, every, every, every right to”
Visram: ChatGPT Is the Best New Consumer Shopping and Discovery Tool
“It is the best new shopping tool, I think, and the place for discovery when people start asking.”
Visram: Plantamica Must Raise Venture Capital Rather Than Bootstrapping
“If you're, like, really in this and you believe and it's your hundred percent thing, then you have to raise money from investors and you kind of go big or go home, is my feeling. I don't think you start this one on a bootstrappy, small way because ultimately y…”
Visram: Starting Infants on Processed Foods Drives Lifelong Diet-Related Illness
“If we're starting ourselves off on processed foods, and then we're hooked on processed foods, and then we eat the standard American diet, then we get sick. And we get sick because we don't have this, like, health blueprint that could be based on a more natural…”
Visram: Modern PR must be repurposed into digital ads to drive sales
“When you get the PR now, you have to leverage it for the digital ad to make sure that, that it continues to live on, because people see it asynchronously. You know, it used to be like, if everyone, if everyone's watching the Today Show together, we're all gonn…”
Visram: Retailers use private label for proven products, not category creation
“Anybody who has a private label brand or any retailer they're typically, you know, private label is typically A mass manufactured version of something they know that already sells well.”
Visram: Early VC offered $500K seed for 70% of Happy Baby
“It was it was 70%. They would own 70%, have every blocking right, every, every, every right to, you know, and I was ready to sign on”
Visram: Happy Family launched the world's first probiotic baby food
“So we launched the first ever baby food in the world that had probiotics.”
Visram: Happy Family was first baby food pouch brand in Whole Foods, Target
“Ok, so we were the first brand of baby food and pouches in Whole Foods and Target.”
Visram: Happy Family is the biggest brand in Target's baby section
“And I'm, like, very proud to tell you that Happy is the biggest store, biggest brand in Target and Baby.”
Visram: Happy Family raised $8M in three weeks using an Amex email
“And all I had to do was take that email from Amex and email it around, and I raised eight million dollars in three weeks.”
Visram: Happy Family revenue tripled from $13M to $39M
“Thirty nine million went from thirteen million to thirty nine million.”
Visram: Visionary founders need an executor COO to make things happen
“She was a perfect person to be a COO to, like, a, you know, crazy kind of loud mouth, visionary type person who had big ideas and big dreams. She was an executor, and that's what A lot of us founders need some time as, you know, the right person to actually ma…”
Fundamentally changing child nutrition requires selling in the main baby aisle
“Frozen, this is a beautiful product, but it's the alternative to homemade baby food. This is not how you're going to change the way children are fed in our country. You got to do that in the baby aisle where moms are shopping and dads are shopping.”
Visram: Happy Baby launched the first-ever probiotic baby food
“We launched the first ever baby food in the world that had probiotics”
Visram leveraged an Amex campaign email to raise $8M in weeks
“And all I had to do was take that email from Amex and email it around, and I raised eight million dollars in three weeks.”
Happy Baby's revenue grew from $13M to $39M practically overnight
“Thirty-nine million went from thirteen million to thirty-nine million. Like, practically overnight.”
Happy Family needed a conglomerate partner to avoid being crushed by rivals
“We might have gotten crushed in everything we worked so hard to build around that initial mission of actually changing the way children are fed. All of that could have been jeopardized.”
Visram: Danone became the world's largest publicly traded B Corp
“Happy has been a B Corp for many, many years, and Danone recently became, you know, the largest publicly traded B Corp in the world, and I feel like Happy has been an inspiration in that process, and that's a way to make systemic change.”
Visram: Columbia Business School culture had intense hubris before 2008
“And that, at that time, in that era, pre that sort of, 2008 humbling of the economy, there was a lot of hubris. In that environment.”
Visram: Early Survey Found Over 70% of Parents Disliked Jarred Baby Food
“I did a little polling, you know and this was, I think, 230 parents. More than 70% of them didn't like the taste of jarred baby food. Of the, of that 70%, 12% had made their own homemade, or tried to. Of that 12%, I think it was only like four percent continue…”
Visram: Happy Family raised $550K seed round across 36 angel investors
“I think it was 36 people for 550,000 dollars, and Seth Goldman of Honesty was 2500 dollars.”
Visram: Happy Family revenue grew from $115K to $2.1M in three years
“It was, it took us from, you know, we did a 115, 116,000 the first year, 520,000 the second year, still on frozen baby food. The next year we launched the cereal, And we're able to get so much more distribution because we weren't struggling for space in the fr…”
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Statements about Shazi Visram, by other people (2)
Raz: Happy Family generated over $250M in annual revenue by 2018
“When she left the company in 2018, it was doing more than two hundred and fifty million dollars in revenue a year.”
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 HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Founder and CEO, HealthyBaby | 4 | 45 | 33% 4/12 | full record on How I Built This → |