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3 Henrik Marstrand

Mater

Henrik Marstrand is the founder and CEO of Mater, a furniture brand dedicated to sustainability, ethics and craftsmanship. Listen to his take of growing a Copenhagen-based impact company that solves the global waste problem through design.

By balancing idealistic ambitions and practical business realities, Henrik is part of a new wave of entrepreneurs using the power of consumerism for lasting change. In this talk, he gets real about balancing ice-cold business with idealism, closing the furniture loop with renewable material solutions and having the right brand narrative.

“Honestly, going to work these days is also about changing the future. But I cannot change the future by charity. That is a completely different thing. I need to change the world by proofing that we are financially strong and that we can create a global business.”

— Henrik Marstrand [00:16:38]

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