Eddy originally cofounded Goodie Bag with his former college roommate Luke after the two graduated from CU Boulder.

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In college, Eddy was no stranger to being scrappy. He slept in the living room his final year to save on rent and hustled to graduate a year and a half early to save on tuition.

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During a ten-week startup program, the former roommates and a few other students came up with the idea for what is now Goodie Bag. The marketplace was built to tackle two wicked problems: food waste and food affordability.

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After winning first place in the program's pitch competition, they built a modest first version of the platform. They launched it in January 2023 at Barchetta, the local pizzeria where Luke worked. With one partner and a couple dozen Goodie Baggers, they saw traction right away. Barchetta listed its surplus lunch slices as "goodie bags," and sure enough, locals bought them at half price.

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The company took a big step forward when Briana Boehmer, a seasoned tech entrepreneur, joined as Co-Founder and COO. Today Goodie Bag is a small, scrappy team. Eddy and Bri lead the business. Harshit Tyagi, our Lead Engineer, built Goodie Bag from scratch and remains at the core of everything we ship. Ajeet Chouhan, our Lead Architect, brings 14 years of full stack experience building and scaling software across virtually every corner of the field.

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Goodie Bag now serves communities across the Colorado Front Range, Charlotte, Charleston, Madison, Milwaukee and New York City. We're also bringing Goodie Bag to college campuses, starting with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bri's alma mater and our first university partner. Together with more than 800 partnering shops and over 200,000 Goodie Baggers, we've saved more than 210,000 goodie bags from going to waste!

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