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Free your inner
entrepreneur
STUDENT STORY
The entrepreneurial
leap of faith
David Rodríguez
Sánchez
Mexican
CEO & Co-Founder,
Food for All
Class of 2015
What inspired you to start Food for All?
40 percent of the food produced—about
365 million pounds per day—is thrown out.
Restaurants account for around 18% of that waste.
At the same time, one in every six Americans
faces hunger. Why can’t people have quality
food at a discount, while also reducing waste?
How does it work?
Food for All is a new marketplace for surplus food.
Restaurants can sell their surplus meals through
our app to users that go pick them up for at least
50 percent off.
How is the business progressing?
We recently got accepted by Techstars and have
raised over $1M in funding. We are now operating
in New York and Boston and have over 250
restaurants on our platform. We’re growing at 25
percent month over month and structuring our
expansion to new cities. And we’ve diverted over
100,000 pounds of food from the trash can.
What have you learned from your setbacks?
Not failing makes you comfortable enough to
create the illusion that everything is perfect.
Having a startup is a roller coaster, so every failure
is learning that brings us closer to success.
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GLOBAL CAREERS REPORT 2020
“The Hult MBA exceeded
my expectations in the way it
created a collaborative, innovative
environment that fostered the
entrepreneurial spirit.”
Eric Chast
COO, Liberty Square Group
Class of 2016