
Claire Coder
Founder and CEO of Aunt Flow, a Columbus-based company providing free-vend period product dispensers; Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and Thiel Fellow.
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Nov 9, 2026
If You’re an Entrepreneur Afraid of Failure, You HAVE to Hear This | Claire Coder
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10:53Kwame ChristianHOST
What are some of the other things that might be less obvious or more intangible that go into your calculations when you're considering risk?

Claire CoderGUEST
Well, generally when I consider business risk, if I'm making a decision that doesn't make sense on paper, right? Like real risk is something that doesn't make sense on paper.

Claire CoderGUEST
If you can't even make it make sense, like, right? Like, no, like that's risk.

Claire CoderGUEST
An example of that was when, In the middle, in February of 2020, we were planning to implement our first dispensers for Aunt Flo period care solutions, right? We rely on people menstruating outside of the hall.
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Making it to Free Tampons in Every Bathroom with Claire Coder
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Claire CoderGUEST
... and that has made people the single hardest part of building a company for me, the single hardest.

Claire CoderGUEST
And we, I found all of our manufacturing for our dispensers, for our tampons, for our pads.

Claire CoderGUEST
I did all of these things, and still yet, people management is the number one thing that has been the hardest for me.
