Non-toxic home | formaldehyde in textiles | sustainable home furnishings | The Yellow Dwelling | consumer health | India startup

Nanda Kumar discovered that most home textiles — sheets, curtains, pillows — contain formaldehyde. The same chemical used to preserve dead bodies. It's legal, unregulated, and in products sitting in your bedroom right now.

Instead of writing a blog post about it, he built a company: The Yellow Dwelling, a non-toxic home furnishings brand that has turned a hidden health hazard into a business with a genuine reason to exist.

This episode is about building a mission-driven consumer brand when the problem you're solving is invisible to most customers, convincing people to care about something they can't smell or see, and how to build supply chains that actually hold a principle.

Topics:

- The formaldehyde problem hiding in home textiles

- How to build a consumer brand around a problem people don't know they have

- Supply chain integrity in sustainable home goods

- Validating demand for a non-toxic product category

- What mission-driven building looks like in consumer goods

Guest: Nanda Kumar, founder of The Yellow Dwelling

Host: Arjun Thomas

Show: Building Real — real conversations with people in the middle of building, without the highlight reel gloss.

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