CHECKOUT Ben Sandhu from Ida Sports | #174 - a podcast by Nathan Bush

from 2022-03-31T19:00:12

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In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Ben Sandhu from Ida Sports, a company who have created the first football boot specifically designed for women’s feet. Only a couple of years old, they have grown from an idea on the back of a napkin and an early prototype they called the ‘frankenshoe’, to selling out of their first range, getting stocked in Dicks Sporting Goods and having Isabel Dawes kick a goal in the AFLW grand final wearing their shoe. 


Links from the episode:

Patagonia

HoMie

Coles 

Finding Drago

Smartless

Invisible Women by Caroline Creado Perez

In Her Shoes: The Ida Sports Story | #080


Questions answered in the podcast:


  • What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever bought online? 
  • Who is your favourite retailer? 
  • Which retail fad do you wish was history?
  • Can you recommend a book or podcast that our listeners should immediately get into? 
  • Finish this sentence.  The future of retail is… 


About your co-host:


Ben Sandhu from Ida Sports


Ben Sandhu has advised startups and accelerators for a number of years in both the UK and Australia before joining Ida Sports. He is passionate about using business as a force for social change, most recently heading up RMIT’s LaunchHUB programme in 2020. He was a semi-professional cricketer who deeply understands the athlete experience, helping Ida Sports land two lucrative contracts with some of the US's largest sports retailers.


You can contact Ben on LinkedIn


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