Lauryn Menard

Hi, Guy.

Hi, Tim.

I'm Lauren Menard.

I'm usually based in San Francisco, actually, but I'm in my hometown in Beekmontown, New York right now.

I'm the CEO and founder of Gob, and we are on a mission to reinvent single-use personal care products that disappear after you use them, as they should.

Our first product is a single-use foam earplug made entirely out of mycelium.

Yes, it's the root structure of a mushroom.

Yeah, so normal foam earplugs, they're all made out of pure petroleum.

They're polyurethane or PVC, and they're really bad for you and the planet.

And ours are bioengineered material foam that's actually biofabricated.

It's grown into its form.

You know, that's exactly why I started the company, Guy.

When I had the idea, I was like, why has no one done this yet?

So I'm an industrial designer.

I was running a design agency.

I thought that was going to be the rest of my life, working with large Fortune 500 companies, helping them bridge the gap between mass manufacturing and better materials.

Just the middle of March this year.

Yeah, so we sell directly on our website currently and also in a number of music venues.

And that's a bit about like why I'm here and asking you a question.

So we're really lucky to be gaining mega traction in the live event space with actually a national partnership with a massive company that owns many venues.