How Dylan Munro Invented a New $130M DTC Category and Built a Factory to Protect It
About this episode
Dylan Munro discusses the journey of Spot & Tango, a direct-to-consumer dog food company he co-founded, and their innovative approach to the pet food market.
They cooked dog food in a rented kitchen in Queens. Their friends thought they were insane. That was 2018. Today, Spot & Tango is a 100% direct-to-consumer, subscription dog food company doing $120-130M in revenue and growing 60% year over year. This is all with zero retail shelves, 95% subscription, and a $35M factory they built themselves to protect a category they invented. Dylan Munro is the co-founder and COO of Spot & Tango. Before this, he was at McKinsey, diligencing DTC brands for private equity firms. He grew up in Canada in an entrepreneurial family and always knew he wanted to build something of his own. When his co-founder Russell was cooking human-grade dog food in a studio apartment on the Upper East Side and neighbors kept asking to buy it, Dylan was introduced at exactly the right moment. They quit their jobs, rented an incubator kitchen in Queens, and started making dog food by hand. In 2020, they launched UnKibble: a freeze-dried, human-grade dog food that was genuinely unlike anything on the market. They called the category "fresh dry." No one else was doing it. They sold through four months of inventory in four days. That was the signal…
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