Season 6, Episode 4: Plantsome Plants: Care for Growth + Green
In today’s episode of Glo Says Let's Talk Local Podcast - Season 6 - Special Shorts (a weekly Business, Entrepreneur and Arts Podcast) host Gloria Chong is joined by Kevin Tholenaars, Plantrepeneur and CEO of Plantsome North America. Plantsome is an ingenious solution that helps you buy plants online and more importantly care for your plants using their helpful app!
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Episode Highlights
Kevin speaks about how he came to live in Vancouver, British Columbia inspired by his parent’s life.
Kevin talks about the differences between Canada and Holland and what interests him about each country.
Gloria asks what started Kevin on the journey of entrepreneurship as a new transplant to Canada.
Kevin goes over his time at Best Buy in the commerce department and how that helped inform him about starting his own business.
The importance of e-commerce becoming so popular is talked about by Kevin, and how this has caused disruption in lots of traditional businesses.
The creation of Plantsome came from Kevin thinking about how plants can be bought and sold online better.
Kevin has a true passion for retail and everything that comes with it.
There is a lot of collaboration with the Dutch Plantsome team which Plantsome Canada is a subsidiary of. They are always in close contact and always sharing new insights with each other.
Kevin goes over what Plantsome does which includes online plant sales all over Canada and the Plantsome app.
Plantsome Plants
Plantsome Plants
Website: plantsome.ca
Facebook: plantsomeCA
Instagran: @plantsome_ca
Plantsome App: IOS | Android
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