Unique Success Story: Tea Drops

Since starting in late 2008 we’ve helped over 13,000 up-and-coming brands, designers and artists — and we’ve seen it all. One of the most rewarding things is watching people and their businesses grow over the years, from setting up small booths and selling at our pop-up markets to becoming million-dollar companies! Meet Tea Drops…

Watching founder Sashee Chandron build Tea Drops has been one of the most exciting things over the last 6-7 years! Her idea to disrupt and innovate in the world of tea came to her as she worked in Silicon Valley… “I was looking for an environmentally friendly, convenient, yet high quality tea experience that simply didn’t exist,” she says. By making an assortment of bagless, organic, whole leaf teas, Tea Drops sheds 15% less waste than traditional tea bags.

Sashee started selling at our markets in 2015 (pic below!), and we witnessed as she would try to pass out free tea with many walking by and ignoring her. But she kept at it, expanding and growing from market-to-market. Since her first market days, Tea Drops has done amazing brand collaborations with folks like Sanrio’s Hello Kitty, and has become a multi-million dollar business!