Larissa Russell

CEO and Co-founder, Pod Foods

San Francisco

Larissa is the CEO and Cofounder of Pod Foods, a company that brings local and emerging brands into retail stores in a fraction of the time and cost so that high quality products can be made accessible to consumers, and small businesses can succeed. Prior to cofounding Pod, Russell had a cookie business called Green Pea Cookie, which produced cookies out of peas. She and her cofounder Fiona Lee experienced the challenges of the grocery supply chain first-hand. Russell graduated from Dartmouth in 2013, where she studied Economics and Government. She is excited about the impact of Pod Foods as a pathway for people to do what they're really passionate about!