A profitable positive impact company

Ryan Shearman, Aether

Can a business be both a luxury brand and a positive environmental impact brand? I want to find out in this interview?

Ryan Shearman is the founder of Aether Diamonds, which creates diamonds made from carbon extracted from the atmosphere.

Ryan Shearman

Aether

Ryan Shearman is the founder of Aether Diamonds, which creates diamonds made from carbon extracted from the atmosphere.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. When I got married. Or before I did. I remember the one thing that my wife kept hinting at and saying was related to the diamond engagement ring, had nothing to do with the size.

I kind of wish she had, I wish you’d told me the size. I wish she told me what design she wanted. I wish your friends knew her taste enough to tell me they didn’t. So I was kind of lost on that, but the one thing she wanted was to make sure that this wasn’t, it wasn’t a blood diamond that she was carrying.

So she cared enough about what she was carrying around that you did not. All the guilt of things that happen in the diamond industry. Well, joining me today is an entrepreneur Ryan Sherman, who says, well, why don’t we go a step beyond? How about if we look for one that doesn’t pollute...

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