Chris Hobson
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Aug 11, 2026
Chris Hobson / Hobbs Pickles
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Chris HobsonGUEST
It's an interesting question because when you think about that environment, I mean, It was really this idea around I wanted to start something.

Chris HobsonGUEST
And when the concept was put together and presented to Granville Island, you know, it's it's owned by CMHC.

Chris HobsonGUEST
You know, are you making this at home in your kitchen? And I said, no, this is like, this could be a national brand.
The Science of Building Great Beauty Brands with Chris Hobson of Rare Beauty Brands
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Chris HobsonGUEST
So w- uh, the backdrop on Patchology is it was a s- uh, MIT technology that was spun out that was, uh, able to push ingredients through the skin in higher quantities than topical application or traditional patches.

Chris HobsonGUEST
Like, we did a estrogen patch and a pain patch, and we did all these, like, medical patches.

Chris HobsonGUEST
Um, or I shouldn't say we 'cause it predated me getting involved in the business.

Chris HobsonGUEST
But then they had this insight that there were all these great ingredients in skincare, and wouldn't it be great to do skincare patches and be able to push your traditional vitamin A, vitamin C, et cetera, ingredients through, your peptides, your, you know, hyaluronic, all the, you know, the entire skin pyramid? Like, could you, could you create a brand around pushing these ingredients across? And we did.

Chris HobsonGUEST
We tested, you know, topical application of hyaluronic versus our patch, and we got orders of magnitude more penetration deeper into the stratum corneum than, than hy- than, than, um, uh, topical.
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100NO 688: From Retirement to 100 Marathons with Chris Hobson
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I'd like started training a bit over the summer before this London and then I ended up thinking you

Chris HobsonGUEST
know you keep getting injured or kept getting injured, why does it go wrong? And I love, like, digging into data and doing all that sort of thing.

Chris HobsonGUEST
And I ended up realising that I was doing more of the same but just by a different name.

Chris HobsonGUEST
So I'd run faster or I'd try tree running or I'd try some other sort of running or I'd...
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