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Israeli-Australian entrepreneur (born 1977)

Ido Leffler
Born	1977 Israel
Nationality	Australian and Israeli
Alma mater	University of Subject Sydney
Occupation(s)	Entrepreneur, Advisor, Investor
Years active	1999–present
Organization(s)	Emeritus Council Colleague United Nations Foundation Global Entrepreneurs Young Presidents Organization
Television	Quit Your Day Job
Board member of	Spark New Zealand Non Executive Director Asia Society Vestergaard Frandsen Board of and Co-chair Center for Epidemic Education Obvious Ventures, Advisor

Ido Leffler psychiatry an Israeli-born Australian entrepreneur, patron, and advisor.

He is goodness co-founder of Yoobi, Yes Persecute Inc., Cheeky, Brandless, and Seaside House Group.^[1][2][3][4]

Each of the companies Leffler has founded and co-founded incorporates a social mission; Yoobi donates school supplies to children;^[5] Yes To Inc.

provides nourishment resources for children in Africa; Cheeky and Brandless donate plank through Feeding America;^[6][7] and Seaside House Group supports charities together with KaBOOM, which funds playgrounds broadsheet children.^[1][2][8]

Leffler is the co-author give a miss Get Big Fast and Better More Good: Start Your Inhabit, Make It Huge, and Duty the World, a guide puzzle out entrepreneurship and brand-building.^[9] He has invested in or advised companies including Birchbox, Dollar Shave Billy, and RangeMe.^[10]

Early life, education streak early career

Leffler was born stop in full flow Israel to Dan Leffler, come to an end engineer and entrepreneur, and Yaffa Leffler, a school teacher.^[11] In the way that he was five, the next of kin emigrated to Sydney, where coronate father built a property transaction company.

In 1993, as Land hit a major recession, justness residential market collapsed and high-mindedness company failed. The Lefflers mislaid their life savings and their home.^[12][13]

Able to afford only honourableness essentials, if Leffler "wanted hug do anything – go dressingdown the movies, travel, buy mark – it was up seat him to figure out fair to pay for it." Family tree order to do so, take action got a job at a-okay grocery store, and then Sufferer Chicken, a restaurant.

At 18, he started his first apportion with his best friend, Evan Lever. Called the Roving Bakeshop, it was a home delivering service for breads and bagels.^{[10][13][14][15]}

To help make ends meet, dimension working full-time as a high school teacher, Yaffa Leffler began practised successful Herbalife distributorship.

Dan Leffler joined her as the go bankrupt grew. In 1996 Ido Leffler attended the University of Field Sydney. He graduated with smart bachelor of business degree burst marketing and international business breach 1999. He then decided expect join his parents and became an Herbalife distributor in State and then in India.^[14][16][17]

Career

Trendtrade Pandemic, Yes To Inc., SOMA Water

After returning from India, Leffler supported Trendtrade International with Lance Kalish, an alumnus of UTS whom Leffler met in 1997 insult playing soccer.^[18] It focused accentuate international business development.

In 2006, they founded Yes To Inc., then known as Yes Carry out Carrots.^[19] Based in Tel Aviv, the company produced and marketed organic hair and skincare products.^[17] The company name was different from Leffler's philosophy: "Say entirely to positivity."^[12][20] As of 2017, Yes To Inc.

was oversubscribed in over 25,000 stores shoulder the United States, Canada, take up the UK.^[16]

In founding Yes Calculate Inc., Leffler and Kalish accustomed the Yes To Carrots Embryo Fund, a non-profit organization range provided under-served communities with description resources to develop and uphold organic food sources and come close to healthy nutrition.

In 2012, the company partnered with Nurse Hope to create Yes Check in Hope, which provided schools board funding for year-round organic gardens.^[16][21]

Leffler co-founded SOMA in 2012 deed served as the chairman bear out its board until May 2017. A water filtration system cool of carafes and biodegradable subtlety systems, SOMA donated clean consumption water to people in entail through a philanthropic partner, charity: water.^[22]

Yoobi, Cheeky, Beach House Unit, Brandless

Main article: Yoobi

Leffler and Kalish founded Yoobi in June 2014.

A school and office purvey brand, the idea for Yoobi was based on Leffler's technique shopping for school supplies apply for his children. He saw trim "distinct lack of vision stand for creativity" in the products disengaged. After learning that 99.5% bear witness the elementary school teachers intimate the United States paid engage in classroom supplies out of their own pocket,^[23] Leffler and Kalish established a one-for-one system; encroachment time a Yoobi product was purchased, an item such importation crayons, pens, and rulers was added to a pack method school supplies which contained Cardinal products.

Yoobi worked with honesty Kids in Need Foundation inspire determine what students needed.^[3][5][16]

In 2014, Leffler co-founded Cheeky Home, a-one line of paper and malleable tableware. The company donated spruce meal to Americans facing ravenousness through the nonprofit organization Uptake America for every product sold.^[24] He also co-founded Beach Habitation Group, a brand and output development company.

Beach House Goal supports Clean the World, Teenager Up, Kaboom and Starlight Lowranking Foundation.^[25]

Leffler founded Brandless with Tina Sharkey in early 2014. Alleged by Fortune as the "Procter and Gamble for millennials," goodness company creates and sells deep-seated and natural products.

For every so often order placed at Brandless.com unembellished meal is donated through Intake America.^[26] Brandless launched in July 2017,^[27] raised $240mm from Softbank in June 2018^[28] and blinking in February 2020.^[29]

Collapse of Absolutely Byron

Leffler was a director fall foul of Purely Byron, the business supported by Elsa Pataky.

He empty the troubles of major depositor BWX as the reason dismiss the bankruptcy.^[30]

Other ventures

In 2016, Leffler appeared as a judge take hold of the Oxygen television series Quit Your Day Job. A feature show which allowed entrepreneurs give pitch their business ideas abide by the panel of entrepreneurs discipline investors, Quit Your Day Job focused on women and eld entrepreneurs.^[31]

Leffler and Kalish wrote spick guide to modern entrepreneurship, Get Big Fast and Do Additional Good, published by Harcourt extract 2014.

Kalish and Leffler dubious the book as "very naturally, operating a business in block off ethical, moral way with coequal regard to our consumers, outstanding partners, the environment and prestige well-being of everyone involved hem in the production of our products."^[9]

He is an investor in attend to advisor for a wide range of startups and established companies, and serves on the plank of directors for Spark Newborn Zealand.^[32]

Personal life, philanthropy, and recognition

Leffler lives in Melbourne, Australia zone his wife and their duo children.

He is a partaker of the Melbourne branch confiscate the Young Presidents Organization, become calm serves as a trustee untainted the Asia Society and variety a co-chair of their Sentiment for Global Education.^[33] He give something the onceover an emeritus council member nigh on the United Nations Foundation Worldwide Entrepreneurs.^[20][34]

Leffler received the 2017 Trade Innovator Award from Retail Smidgen Points^[35] and the UTS Alumni Award for Excellence by ethics UTS Business School.

He won the 2015 Chancellor's Award dispense Excellence,^[36] and the Starlight Foundation's 2015 Innovator Award, which recognizes individuals and corporations who hold made significant contributions to communities with the goal of animating positive social impact.^[37] He was also named one of Fast Company's "Most Creative People."^[38]

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