She Started a Business When She Couldn’t Satisfy a European Craving in the U.S. — and It Made More Than $30 Million Last Year

There’s no shortage of boulangeries in Paris, Johanna Hartzheim, co-founder of bakery delivery subscription company Wildgrain, tells Entrepreneur. “It’s such a cultural thing to have a fresh baguette. You buy a baguette every day, fresh croissants on every corner. It’s always warm because they churn bread so much that [every time] you go in, [it] just came out of the oven.”

Image Credit: Courtesy of Wildgrain. Johanna Hartzheim.

So, when Hartzheim and her husband and co-founder Ismail Salhi moved from France’s capital to Boston in 2015 to work on their music hardware company Qleek, the local carb options weren’t cutting it.

Unlike Europe, the U.S. didn’t offer fresh-baked bread and pastries

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