Nicole Argüelles

Co-founder, Alli · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nicole Argüelles co-founded Alli to modernise public restrooms and combat period poverty with smart, touchless feminine hygiene dispensers and disposal units. In 2021, she was selected as an NPR How I Built This Fellow for her work launching and scaling the company.

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Survey of 1,000 women showed overwhelming demand for upgraded restroom dispensers
“One of the first steps we took was we actually surveyed over a thousand women in our community and across the United States, asking them some of those key points to see if there was a solution that tackled all of those. Would they be more interested and more i…”
Nicole Argüelles May 20, 2021 ▶ 18:04 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Kaitlin McGreyes & Nicole Argüelles
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
ALI has deployed three menstrual product dispensers in Florida shopping malls
“Currently, we have three fully functional dispensers out in shopping malls in the South Florida area”
Nicole Argüelles May 20, 2021 ▶ 18:38 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Kaitlin McGreyes & Nicole Argüelles
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ALI manufactured an initial production run of just four dispenser units
“We didn't need a huge order quantity, like a lot of times you do with manufacturing, we were able to start with just four.”
Nicole Argüelles May 20, 2021 ▶ 21:09 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Kaitlin McGreyes & Nicole Argüelles
Disclosure
ALI plans to expand to 16 live dispensers by June 2021
“We do have those three machines live currently, and we'll be expanding to a total of 16 machines by the end of next month, by end of June, 20, 21.”
Nicole Argüelles May 20, 2021 ▶ 21:32 Meet The HIBT Fellows: Kaitlin McGreyes & Nicole Argüelles

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Kaitlin McGreyes & Nicole Argüelles May 20, 2021 6m
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