What Potato Head’s Founder Couldn’t Tell Me in 25 Minutes On Stage
Photo Credit: Potato Head Founder Ronald Akili on stage at Skift Global Forum in September, 2022, with Skift On Experience columnist Colin Nagy (right) Skift / Neil van Niekerk
Skift Take
Ronald Akili, founder of Potato Head, barely scratched the surface of his work when he joined us on stage at Skift Global Forum. So we explore some of the other design and sustainability initiatives happening in Bali here.
On Experience
Colin Nagy is a marketing strategist and writes on customer-centric experiences and innovation across the luxury sector, hotels, aviation, and beyond. You can read all of his writing here.I spoke with Ronald Akili, founder of the Indonesian lifestyle brand Potato Head, at the recent Skift Global Forum, where we touched on the launch of his brand, the opportunity to bring modern Indonesian culture to a wider audience, and his salient philosophy of sustainability without compromise.
While we covered a lot in the 25-minute talk, I figured it was worth further unpacking what the property, and by extension, the brand has been doing with its worldwide operations. I also wanted to explore why it stands out as meaningful as all hospitality brands seek to reboot stalled sustainability efforts and thinking coming out of the pandemic, when plastic seemed to cover every conceivable surface. The idea of building sustainability into business models without compromising on function or ae
