Head of Operations, Seed Inc.

John is the Head of Operations for Seed Inc., a California-based consumer health startup that manufactures probiotic supplements. Although his responsibilities run wide (as is normal for a smaller startup), John’s ultimate focus is the sourcing of bacterias and production of the company’s flagship probiotic supplement.

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My name is John Morgan. I'm head of operations at Seed, Inc. Which is a science company focused on the micro-biological health of humans. My job is everything from HR to customer service to actually delivering and creating the product. So we source a variety of bacteria and ingredients from all over the world. And to get those in a safe and high quality way into the stomachs and guts of our customers is kind of my responsibility. In the world of a start-up where there's maybe ten of us working on this company, there anything could happen. So, as of right now we are pushing to get products encapsulated, blended, and out the door to our first paying customers. A lot of times it might be going, and auditing, and checking on some of these suppliers to make sure they're maintaining quality standards. It could be how do we reorganize the company to be more efficient, and to work better internally amongst each other, and to solve kinda the problems that are most pressing for the company to be successful. Yeah so, a busy week would be having time to work on a lot of the projects that we're trying to build out. So that's where the late nights come in. Where you're like I had a busy day and I need to start on this project that I need to keep progressing on. So that could be developing and building our financial model to understand the financial health of the company. It could be creating an automated inventory management system and testing and rolling out the ERP system that works best for our company. It could be traveling to some of these suppliers and actually witnessing their production line and understanding key bottle necks. And finding ways to make that partnership flow easier. It could be working with RNT physicians and research professionals from all over the world. Discussing what can be done with the next wave of micro-biological technology and bacteria. And how we can develop partnerships that really matter to help people.

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