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Robert Lee

Robert Lee

Co-founder and CEO of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, a national food rescue nonprofit; former JPMorgan analyst, Forbes 30 Under 30 and CNN Heroes honoree.

Sep 2, 2026

15:50
What would you say to them? How can they start their journeys?
15:54
Yeah, I mean, I definitely, you know, feel like I'm in that boat kind of quite often, actually.
15:59
I feel like I'm always, you know, thinking of new ideas and thinking of all these, you know, crazy things.
16:07
Truly, I think the best advice really is to start small and to take action, right? And I feel like For me, even starting with, you know, RLC, we started off just, you know, as a student club that brought leftover dining hall food to homeless shelter.
16:23
I didn't even start that club.
16:24
I just joined because I thought that was a brilliant idea.
16:26
And I joined to specifically, you know, target the problem that it didn't work on weekends and didn't rescue food on weekends.
17:45
anything else you want to share with the audience anything you haven't talked about like actually how do you how do you think about impact and can you share what impact you know your organization has made

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