Stephan Kanlian

Podcast: Start to Scale from The Beauty Center at FIT · Choulie Letters

Opublikowano: 2026-09-14

My first guest is Stephan Kanlian, Chairperson of The Beauty Center at FIT and one of the people responsible for making beauty management a field of academic study. Before I began building Choulie, I spent fourteen years in two food businesses. I understood product development, manufacturing, margins, retail, brand building, and the multitude of decisions involved in turning an idea into a company. But even though Choulie is a CPG product, beauty has its own history, economics, distribution channels, power structures, and assumptions about how brands grow. Stephan has spent his career inside...