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The Next-Gen Health Club

Thrive Market makes shopping for organic food online cheaper than your corner supermarket (and Whole Foods)
ORGANIC GROWTH The two-year-old Marina del Rey, California–based startup expects to hit $100 million in revenue in 2016 by selling thousands of products, from vegan flax-seed oil to nontoxic toys.

WHEN THE co-founders of organic food e-commerce company Thrive Market saw an Instagram of a bear mauling one of their deliveries, they were oddly delighted. “A box of food had been left on the porch of a woman in rural Wyoming,” says CEO Nick Green. It’s remote locales like this where he and his co-founders, Gunnar Lovelace and Sasha Siddhartha, hope to have their biggest success selling organic food that’s accessible and affordable. For a $59.95 membership fee, consumers can buy organic products at up to 50 percent off the retail price. Green explains how they make

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