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Tara Reed interviews Sweetgreen co-founder Nicolas Jammet about transitioning from a creative founder to a leader in a billion-dollar company.

In this episode Tara sits down with Sweetgreen co-founder Nicolas Jammet to talk about the process of transitioning from the creative, idea-generating early founder role, to becoming the leader of a larger, publicly traded company. 00:00 Intro 01:04 What innovations at Sweetgreen Nic is most proud of 06:18 Where Nic looks to find inspiration for innovating his business 10:44 How innovation happens at Sweetgreen now that they’re a billion-dollar business 13:09 Office Hours segment 16:30 The entrepreneurs that Nic looks up to 17:48 How Nic thinks about copycat businesses 21:46 Advice for people worried about their business ideas being stolen This episode is presented by Amazon Ads: Amazon Ads help you show up for customers—right when they’re looking for you. Help BOSSY get to know you better! Take this quick survey so we can keep building the best show we can for you: ⁠https://www.morningbrewbreakroom.com/c/r/Bossy-Survey?Platform=pod⁠ 💌 Want to get all of Tara’s resources? Subscribe: https://www.morningbrew.com/bossy-show/subscribe Get More BOSSY Watch BOSSY on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@BOSSY_Show Follow BOSSY Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bossy_show/ TikTok…

People in this episode

Host: Tara Reed

Guest: Nicolas Jammet

Topics covered

• innovation
• entrepreneurship
• business leadership
• process standardization
• inspiration

Keywords

• innovation
• entrepreneurship
• Sweetgreen
• business ideas
• leadership
• inspiration
• copycat businesses

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Organizations: Sweetgreen

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