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Seed to Harvest
🎙️ Seed to Harvest | Stories from Technical Storytellers
Welcome to Seed to Harvest, the podcast by Behind Genius Ventures.
We talk to early-stage founders, operators, and investors—people building with code and conviction. Each episode is a chapter in their story: from the messy beginnings to the quiet pivots, from planting ideas to growing companies that matter.
Expect:
🌱 Honest conversations on the earliest chapters of company-building
🧠 Tactical insights from technical minds with narrative soul
✨ Reflections on resilience, rituals, and reinventing what’s possible
This podcast is for the builders who think in frameworks and metaphors. The ones who whiteboard in wild places. The ones writing their own mythologies—one commit, pitch, or poem at a time.
From spark to story.
From seed to harvest. 🌾
Seed to Harvest
Co-founders of Biom Will Gahagan and Hank Schellenger on How Biom Beats Out Lysol and Clorox Wipes and How Apple Airpods Inspired Biom’s Patented Product Design | Seed To Harvest EP31
Seed to Harvest is a new podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.
On this episode, I speak with co-founders of Biom, Will Gahagan and Hank Schellenger. Biom creates the world's first biodegradable and home-compostable wipe system. Better for you, better for the planet. Will Gahagan and Hank Schellenger are passionate about reinventing stale, wasteful categories to protect and improve lives. Will Gahagan has 10+ years selling a range of enterprise software across broad range of industries (Financial Services, Tech, Government, Defense, Consulting). Hank Schellenger has 10+ years of experience in design work including previous roles at FABLab at UNC Charlotte and as an owner-manager at ECCENT Design Build, LLC. Currently, he serves as Chief Product Officer at Biom.
00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Will Gahagan and Hank Schellenger
00:49 Shaking up the wipe industry
05:00 Skills for launching Biom
14:08 Improved wipes packaging
29:24 Will and Hank's process behind evaluating investors
Show notes:
Will Gahagan | https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-gahagan-a055341b/
Hank Schellenger | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hank-schellenger-13770a42/
Biom | https://www.linkedin.com/company/getbiom/
The Hard Thing About Hard Things | https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205
Shoe Dog | https://www.amazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Phil-Knight/dp/1508211809
Open | https://www.amazon.com/Open-Autobiography-Andre-Agassi/dp/0307388409