Alba: The Honest Company Strategy Paired Public Education with Safe Product Alternatives
Jessica Alba · How to optimize your life experience (with The Honest Company’s Jessica Alba) | Masters of Scale · Dec 11, 2023 · at 13:26
Jessica Alba explains how she launched The Honest Company after realizing political lobbying was ineffective for driving consumer product safety reform.
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“So I leveraged social media to be sort of like my sounding board and to build community, and I wanted to create this destination for people with my website that people can get educated on issues, but also they can buy the alternative.”
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