2018's Most Impactful Entrepreneurs
Meet the minds shaping and building the big business of the outdoors.
- Twenty-million dollars: the approximate amount Foley eventually raised from some 200 angel investors who took a risk on his concept.
- Thirty-nine dollars: the monthly price of a Peloton workout subscription.
- Since its launch in 2011, Brooklyn- and Nairobi-based BioLite has taken a unique approach to product research and design, simultaneously creating camping goods for Western consumers and daily life tools for off-grid communities in developing nations.
- BioLite calls this model parallel innovation and is developing new technologies for electricity and clean cooking that can be used in both markets.