Laura Modi was a well-paid, high-powered executive — at Airbnb, and before that, at Google Finance — when, in 2018, she surprised everyone around her and decided to leave her secure and admired position to start a baby-formula company … while pregnant. At the time, she had no formal background in the formula industry, but as a parent, she knew what the market had to offer and what it was missing: a European-style infant formula manufactured in America. Now the founder and CEO of Bobbie, the only female-founded and mom-led organic-infant-formula company in the U.S., Modi shares the challenges inherent to working motherhood, particularly in an industry beset by crisis. The Cut
