Bobbie Founder Laura Modi Is on a Mission to Transform Parenting—and She’s Not Afraid to Break the Rules

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company , she was out drinking with her friends in a pub back in Ireland, her home country.“It was New Year’s Eve,” she recalls. “My daughter was one.

I had already done my research, and I was so convinced I wanted to do this.” But the words, she says, had never come out of her mouth before. “I’m in a pub in Cork, and I proclaimed to my friends that I was going to start a company.

And typical Irish, they ordered drinks, they started cheersing, like, This is so exciting. I viscerally remember that helping me because I came back to the States and I handed in my notice.

Once it came out of my mouth, I had no choice but to go do it.”It might sound like a crazy way to start what is now one of the fastest growing companies in America—Bobbie feeds more than 500,000 babies a year—and Modi herself admits, “I never ever in my life thought I would ever start a powdered milk company.