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283: From Craft to Manufacturing: How Crafted Glory’s Kwadwo Som-Pimpong Is Scaling a Furniture Business While Working the Night Shift

Manufacturing Happy Hour · 14 Apr 2026 · 47m

What this episode covers

Kwadwo Som-Pimpong, founder of Crafted Glory, explains how he scales a luxury furniture business while working 10-hour shifts as a fabrication supervisor at Eaton. He details three strategies for managing limited shop time: using a clipboard for time tracking to inform pricing, leveraging Claude AI for end-of-day reflection, and strategic networking that turned a single Instagram photo into multiple interior design projects. Som-Pimpong also discusses the Echoes of the Forest project, creating furniture from trees uprooted by Hurricane Helene, and applying industrial manufacturing principles like 5S and standard operations learned from Hellman Chang's to his craft practice.

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early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Crafted Glory, Eaton, Rivian
Tools
Claude
Also
How I Built This, Etsy, Biscuit Head, Carnegie Mellon, Echosophorus, Biltmore Forest Town Hall, YMI Cultural Center

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