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The Pet Industry Doesn’t Need Another Puppuccino - It Needs a Revolution!

BSM Partners, Nate Thomas on AI-powered insights, radical transparency, and why real innovation means getting comfortable with failure (and science).

Issue #203

June 16th, 2025

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Quick Hits:

This week, we are speaking with Nate Thomas, co-founder and partner of BSM Partners, the pet industry’s leading consultancy. A few highlights from our conversation:

  • Why BSM wasn’t born to fix a problem, but to reimagine how innovation gets done

  • How BSM Aperture, their proprietary AI tool, is predicting trends before they happen

  • The pet industry’s overreliance on hype vs. real science (and how to fix it)

  • What’s driving longevity in pets - from peptides to personalized nutrition

  • Why is consilience one of the most important values in a company

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