A new publication at the intersection of consumer business analysis, product reviews, and lifestyle DIY.
Consumerealm was founded to fill a gap in consumer business media, a category traditionally saturated with semi-serious fashion mags and decades-old periodicals that our parents trusted. Here you’ll find content written with the rigor traditionally reserved for finance, politics, and tech. Did you know that consumer goods and services constitute over 60% of US GDP? A generational transformation is ten years underway. There’s lots to talk about.
Written with a first-person perspective, consumerealm is intimate and intentional. Think smart but not elite. And not just shop talk. Discover deeply personal stories here. Come for the research and reviews, stay for the cooking videos.
Consumerealm is read by creative types, allies & advocates, trendsetters, the design-conscious, consumer investors, cpg execs, indie retailers, entrepreneurs, cultural curators, very curious minds, and people like you.
Meet your curators.
Lindsay Meyer 🙋🏻♀️ (the “lm” of realm)
I’m as 1986 as Taylor Swift is 1989. I quit my job as an equity research analyst in New York City without a plan while getting a $224,000 MBA from Columbia Business School. If that doesn’t make me a millennial, I don’t know what does. Yes, my family and friends have questions. No, I don’t have great answers, except that… a psychic in Northern California told me I might find success as a writer. (For more, see here.)
A lot of people thought it was weird that I wanted to work on Wall Street after starting a next-gen, venture-backed retail business in Silicon Valley. TBH, building “a franchise” with institutional investors felt similar to building a startup, which is what I had spent the prior decade pursuing.
From a young age, I loved being ahead of the curve and on-trend with my choice of clothes, toys, and tech. After college, I spent 14.5 years living in San Francisco, where my taste-making developed to include home, design, food, fitness, wellness, and emerging brands. In 2018, 7x7 Magazine included me in their roundup of most stylish people in the city. I’m no fashion icon, but I have a very strong aesthetic eye and the rare talent of being able see many things fully-formed, before they are even entirely conceptualized. The psychic describes this skill as “fast processing” and my ability to do so crosses multiple domains, including spatial and visual (hence my design sensibility) as well as commercial (ie: is this new idea likely to work?).
I love to discover cool stuff, create beautiful things, and share the best of what I’m learning and doing every day. Consumerealm is my new home for all of this, and I’m excited to be going professional for a wider audience.
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Ralphie 🐶
I’m the 20-pound sidekick. I have two primary modes: munchkin (sweet and approachable) and punk (get tf away from me). I have no formal training in anything that my mom writes about, but I have emotionally supported her through five years as a CEO, an Executive MBA program, and a global pandemic. If that doesn’t make me MVP (most valuable pupper) then, I don’t know what does!
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Contact us.
Tips, leads & suggestions – tips@consumerealm.com
Contributors – freelance@consumerealm.com
Product samples – samples@consumerealm.com
Factual inaccuracies – editorial@consumerealm.com
Anything else – hello@consumerealm.com
Why subscribe?
Consumerealm content includes market maps, research, reviews, interviews, gift guides, DIYs, POVs, and Day in the Life glimpses. We occasionally produce videos. I’m also considering a podcast or other audio-only format.
My insights derive from spending over five years as the CEO of a venture-capital funded retail startup, and before that, nearly a decade in Silicon Valley as a consultant and investment firm analyst. I’m a graduate of Columbia Business School and the University of Notre Dame and a 2017 TIME Person of the Year. I’m also an adopted Korean woman raised by a childcare provider and firefighter, and the only person in my immediate family to attend college.
By directly supporting Consumerealm as a paid member, I’m able to stock the site with high-quality content, pay my health insurance premium, and ensure Ralphie doesn’t run out of dog food.
