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Kickstarted! Tuckerman & Co. Launches at Yale

Jonas Clark '15 took a deep breath. "How am I doing? I'm great. Tired. But I signed up for this. We didn't apply anywhere else. We knew we were coming to SOM. We knew we were going to start this business."

It had been barely a week since Clark and his fiancé, Amanda Rinderle (also SOM '15), had launched a website and a Kickstarter campaign for their organic cotton dress shirt line. They had also just incorporated as a Benefit Corporation, hosted a launch party, won reSet's top prize for Social Enterprise, and were fielding interviews left and rightTuckerman & Co. was live. And there wasn't a lot of time to breathe. They've taken one day off this year. It was the day they got engaged. 

Did I mention that they're both full-time students at Yale SOM?

Read the full post on the Yale Center for Business and the Environment blog