'And as a new mom, I became obsessed with being able to tell my kid 'I did everything I could to fix this.'
Miso Robotics's Dave Zito and Zume Pizza's Julia Collins . Photo: Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch
Julia Collins, who co-founded and co-led Zume Pizza, has a new job: entrepreneur-in-residence at Cleo Capital, an early-stageCollins is one of the incredibly few black women to start a "unicorn" startup, but she stepped away from Zume a year ago to tackle climate change with a new company, Planet FWD ."My ambition is to help reverse climate change by making it easier to bring carbon neutral products to market," Collins tells Axios of her new company.
Collins says that when she began developing her snacks company she realized there is a lack of tools and resources for entrepreneurs who want to bring carbon-neutral products to market, so she decided build those, too. That was a big lesson she took from her prior company: "One thing from the Zume playbook is, if you’re going to build a platform, start first with designing tools that are going to be useful to real customers" — pizza making in that case."It is too early to pat ourselves on the back for anything that any of us have done from the standpoint of equity," despite small wins in recent years.
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