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After making the decision to wholeheartedly pursue the project , Mayer resigned from her job at JDK and began working at Mamava full-time as CEO . Dodson followed suit several years later and joined the Mamava Team full-time as COO in 2016 .
After Mamava ’ s first pod was introduced in the Burlington International Airport , it received a significant amount of positive media exposure . The press coverage led to a series of subsequent inquiries from potential customers , which resulted in the first batch of orders . After the first run of pods was marred by a series of untimely logistical complications on the manufacturing end , David Jaacks opened a manufacturing facility in Springfield , Vermont , that was exclusively dedicated to making Mamava units in 2016 . “ He knew that he could do a better job making the Mamava units than the other manufacturers that he had previously worked with ,” says Dodson . “ He started up the Springfield factory , and he supplied us with the majority of the units until we purchased the factory from him in September 2021 .”
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As order numbers gradually started to increase , Mayer and Dodson built a sales and marketing team at Mamava over the span of several years . Dodson says that Mamava was able to organically grow as a business due to a series of federal legislative acts , the first of which was passed several years before the inaugural pod prototype came into existence . “ In March 2010 , The Fair Labor Standards Act was amended to require businesses of 50 employers or more to provide a space for women to use a breast pump or express milk . That served as the proverbial ‘ wind beneath our wings ’ when we started . We knew that companies were going to need to comply , and we designed our product with that legislature in mind . States and municipalities around the country have passed even richer laws around breastfeeding over the past decade , as well as supportive measures for breastfeeding parents .”
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