Hungryroot

Last week, I celebrated my 5-year anniversary at Hungryroot. For Hungryroot, 5 years is half of the company's existence, its fastest growth period yet, and it is the time we 10x our engineering team from 4 to 40+ and scaled up our technology to match our growth. It's been a privilege to be part of that journey. As an engineering leader, I am proud to have made or facilitated some important decisions that have supported this level of growth, here are a few highlights: - I started our formal code review process about 5 years ago. When I first joined, we were young and scrappy, the "every dev pushes directly to `master` branch" kinda scrappy 😱 - Modernized our stack and scaled up our infra about 3 years ago. We are living proof that you don't need the newest and shiniest tech to build a successful business, but we also learned our lessons that 10 EC2 instances and a 20 minute downtime deployment can only take you so far. Along similar lines, empowering our engineers with a local environment that's fast and easier to set up made a world of difference when we try to "move fast but don't break too many things". - Fostered an introspective, collaborative, and craftsmanship engineering culture that emphasizes on learning and connections, especially given our distributed nature. Early in my tenure, while social distancing was the "new" "norm", I created a #lounge Slack channel for our devs to post memes and share fun/cool stuff; After noticing recurring on-call issues, I started a weekly Dev on Call Retro so we can investigate the issues and identify preventative measures; I also started our biweekly Demo & Happy Hour so we can share cool stuff we built, fun new tech (one of our team members showed us ChatGPT before it was cool), and tech conference-style featured presentations. - Built partnerships across functional teams, because "friends don't try to make friends' jobs harder". I was very lucky to have worked closely with some amazing folks across product, operations, marketing, data, and people teams, and I've found that when you approach projects and career growth as a collaborative win-win efforts rather than zero-sum games, you end up building better outcomes (and making more friends along the way). This journey wouldn't have been possible or have lasted this long without some amazing humans: Dave Kong, Christopher McKim, Stephen Johnston, Joshua "jag" Ginsberg, Ellen Huffman, Jared Wechsler, Terence Tsui, Katherine Walker, Grant Cotler, Jingchen Cao, Joshua Henderson, Kylie Conibear, Zoe Stephens, Luke Vaccaro, Antoine Atallah, Pian Pian Xu, to name a few. To 2026 and beyond!!!! ❤️🚀🤘

Excited to share that I’ve joined Hungryroot as VP of FP&A! From the moment I first engaged with the team, it was clear that Hungryroot is not only transforming how people discover and enjoy food, but doing so with a deep commitment to innovation, data-driven decision making, and customer obsession. I’m energized by the opportunity to help scale a mission-driven company that sits at the intersection of food, technology, and personalization. I’m grateful for the trust and excited to contribute to the next chapter of Hungryroot’s journey. 🚀

Our Founder and CEO, Ben McKean, had the honor of speaking at Ernst & Young’s Strategic Growth Forum alongside Martha Stewart, Vince Vaughn, Deborah Norville, “Raz” (Rich) Razgaitis, Kim Malek, and more. Flo Rida helped top off the Entrepreneur of the Year awards ceremony with an evening performance! Ben spoke about how Hungryroot is on a mission to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist, by using AI to make meal planning, food shopping, and personalized nutrition effortless and enjoyable. The result: A healthier, more balanced life–with less stress, more discovery, and the confidence you’re making the right choices to help you and your family feel your best each day. Thanks to the team at EY and congratulations to the Entrepreneur of the Year winners! 🎉

Thank you Hungryroot!!!!!!! 😊😊😊 200 brands met the buying team on our webinar. Hungryroot is on an absolute growth tear (nearly 10-figures in revenue) and carries just ~1K SKUs, meaning it's a HUGE volume opportunity for brands. We even got 20 brands up to quick pitch their team including Kimberle Lau, MBA from Bake Me Healthy! Huge thank you: Nika Mosenthal Julia Bello Keri C. Chris Battaglia For anyone in NYC on Dec 9th, don't miss our holiday Grocery Run at Hungryroot HQ!

This is a great episode about the impact of AI on food shopping from Matt Rodbard and the TASTE podcast featuring Dan Frommer from The New Consumer. We learned a lot, and we appreciate the shoutout to Hungryroot 20 minutes in! https://lnkd.in/eip986td

It’s been an exciting year at Hungryroot. Our strategy combining innovative food, AI-driven personalization, and seamless convenience is resonating. We're welcoming new customers at a record pace while earning deeper loyalty from our existing community. This momentum has fueled highly profitable growth and allowed us to expand our physical footprint, with a new fulfillment center in Denton, TX, and another opening soon in Hiram, GA. As we continue to execute on our strategy, I’m thrilled to welcome three key leaders to our executive team who joined us in recent months: ✅ Blake Nolan, Chief Financial Officer, brings extensive experience leading strategic finance, accounting and analytics teams at fast-growing consumer companies. ✅ Dushyant Saraph, Chief Product and AI Officer, has led the product, engineering, design, and AI teams for exceptional mission-driven consumer businesses at the forefront of tech disruption. ✅ Elizabeth Monteleone, Chief Legal Officer, brings a proven track record of scaling legal teams and navigating complex issues at fast-growing, technology-driven companies. Blake, Dushyant, and Liz join Carolyn Frey, Adam Weber, Dwayne Searwar, and me on the Hungryroot executive team. Please wish them a very warm welcome! We are excited for all that is to come and are looking for more talented people to join our team and help us fulfill our mission of making it easy and enjoyable to eat healthy. We have open roles across Data Science, Engineering, Product, Design, Operations, Finance, Accounting, and more. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please add them to the comments, or reach out directly. Thank you!