Over the weekend, Reddit user -void1 posted an alarming discovery on the r/ClaudeAI subreddit: some conversations that users of Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot had made “shareable” via a link were being indexed by Google Search, and could be clicked on and accessed by seemingly anyone. The conversation took off on the social networks X and…
Read More
Andrea Faulkner Williams is the head mama and co-founder of Tubby Todd Bath Co., which she launched with her husband, Brian Todd, as a solution to her own family’s sensitive skin in 2014. For years her family struggled with dryness and eczema, and smooth skin always seemed impossibly out of reach. It was frustrating spending…
Read More
Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Melissa Dusendang ran a summer contract at SheFit to “manage the chaos” for one marketing director. She never left. Years later she runs ecommerce and operations, and her actual job is stopping the company from lying to itself with its own data. If you own the P&L, the dashboard,…
Read More
On today’s episode, we welcome Suman Desai, Founder and President of GLASSFX, a biotechnology-forward skincare brand built at the intersection of clinical science, Korean innovation, and modern consumer behavior. Before entering the beauty industry, Suman co-founded FLYBLACK, a private aviation company that challenged traditional luxury travel. But after spending four years inside South Korea’s leading formulation labs, she became convinced that skincare was ready for its own disruption.
That vision became GLASSFX—a clinically driven beauty brand designed to deliver high-performance results without the complexity of traditional skincare routines. Built with patented Korean technologies and advanced bioactive ingredients, GLASSFX is focused on creating products that perform like makeup, heal like medicine, and fit seamlessly into modern life.
In this episode, Suman shares what she learned from working alongside some of Korea’s top skincare innovators, why she believes the beauty industry has overcomplicated skincare, and how consumers are increasingly demanding fewer products with better results. We discuss the difference between real biotech innovation and marketing hype, how to build trust in one of the most crowded consumer categories, and why she believes the future of skincare will be defined by science-backed performance rather than endless routines.
Suman also reflects on the lessons she carried from luxury aviation into beauty, the challenges of building a disruptive brand in a legacy industry, and the emerging trends she believes will reshape skincare over the next decade.
A must-listen for founders, operators, beauty enthusiasts, and anyone interested in where science, technology, and consumer behavior are taking the future of skincare.
Are you interested in sponsoring and advertising on The Kara Goldin Show, which is now in the Top 1% of Entrepreneur podcasts in the world? Let me know by contacting me at karagoldin@gmail.com. You can also find me @KaraGoldin on all networks.
To learn more about Suman Desai and GLASSFX:
https://www.glassfxskin.com/
https://www.instagram.com/glassfxofficial/
https://www.instagram.com/sumidesai/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumandesai
Sponsored By:
Rippling – Head to Rippling.AI/KaraGoldin and get the only AI to give you full visibility across your business and take complex actions across your entire organization.
Ritual – Save 25% on your first month at Ritual.com/GOLDIN
Momentous – Get up to 35% off your first order at LiveMomentous.com, promo code KARAGOLDIN
Odoo – Discover how Odoo can take your business to the next level by visiting Odoo.com
Check out our website to view this episode’s show notes: https://karagoldin.com/podcast/870
Read More
This episode is brought to you by KWI. Instacart recently crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue, and alongside its impressive marketplace growth, it’s also evolving into a powerful technology partner for retailers while continuing to redefine the digital grocery experience. In this episode of Retail Remix, Kate Robertson speaks with Ryan Hamburger, Chief Commercial Officer…
Read More
FOLLOW UP WITH ANDREW X: https://x.com/andrewjfaris Email: podcast@ajfgrowth.com Work With AJF Growth: https://ajfgrowth.com INTELLIGEMS Intelligems brings A/B testing to business decisions beyond copy and design. Test your pricing, shipping charges, free shipping thresholds, offers, SaaS tools, and more by clicking here: https://bit.ly/42DcmFl. Get 20% off the first 3 months with code FARIS20. MOVE SUPPLY CHAIN…
Read More
Andy Ostcliffe is the Chief at Chiefly, where they’re experts on the Charity Retail Sector and pre-loved sales across product categories. Previously Andy co-created and led two of the world’s largest charity online retailers – Oxfam and British Heart Foundation. Andy joins Chloe for a What Would You Do? episode, exploring what today’s Head…
Read More
As an official sales partner for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Best Buy is rethinking what it means to deliver experiential retail in the age of AI. This week on the Modern Retail Podcast, special projects editor Melissa Daniels sat down with Best Buy’s executive vice president and chief revenue officer, Patrick McGinnis, to go behind the…
Read More
Enterprises deployed AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they did it knowingly. That is the central finding across the five parallel surveys VentureBeat Research fielded in June, spanning every layer of the agentic stack. Now those enterprises are retrofitting to catch up with their own standards, and they are…
Read More
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, a model the company says delivers nearly all the intelligence of its top-of-the-line Claude Fable 5 at half the cost — a launch that signals how the AI race is shifting from raw capability to the economics of daily use. The model, available immediately on all of Anthropic’s…
Read More