what's up, DTC pod? Today we're joined by Jessica Young, who is the founder and CEO at bubblegoods. So Jessica, I'll let you kick us off. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, and what you guys are building at bubble.

Thanks for having me. Bubblegoods is an online marketplace for emerging quality, healthy food brands to ship direct to consumer. Our mission is to be the number one channel for these brands online. So we come in where an emerging food brand is falling short with trying to sell on Amazon or within their own shopify store, especially in the post iOS 14 world. It's super expensive and difficult to acquire and find customers online if you're a solo brand. So we've brought that in house all under one roof and we're bringing customers to these brands that otherwise would not really be able to see success. So, yeah, my background is in the food space. It's my life's work and passion to be around delicious food, I think.

So I originally kind of started in the kitchen, so moved to New York City when I was 20 to go to culinary school for a semester at the time. That was my plan. Ended up not returning to college and just went full bore into all things food and culinary. So I worked in fine dining, did some private chefing on the side for supplemental income, lived in the Hamptons for a bit. That's a whole other story, pre Wishbone Kitchen TikTok, but that was like my life. So I go between cooking in restaurants and then Wishbone Kitchen life and then worked at Hugh Kitchen, which at the time was a fast casual concept that was opening up and got a taste of all things startup. They were getting a line of chocolate together, which I think Mondelez now owns or has a major stake in. So it was really exciting to be a part of that and then worked at a couple meal kit companies, part of that Blue Apron, HelloFresh Wave, some more niche meal kit companies that I learned a lot about, what not to do, I would say, at those companies in startup.