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Who Is Allbirds Co-founder Joey Zwillinger?
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Harry Stebbings introduces Joey Zwillinger on The Twenty Minute VC as co-founder of Allbirds, the wool-shoe company Stebbings calls the maker of the world's most comfortable shoes. He says Larry Page, Mary Meeker, Ben Horowitz, and Dick Costolo are fans, and that Allbirds has funding from Maveron, Lerer Hippeau, and Slow Ventures. Before the shoe company, Zwillinger worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, in venture capital at Industry Ventures, and at TerraVia, a food and nutrition company. He tells Stebbings he was an engineer in biotech when the idea for Allbirds took shape.
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