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What is the next big disruptor in the laundry and fabric care world?
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DONE
73 months ago

The evolution of laundry products is a surprisingly recent story. It wasn't until the mid-1900s that laundry detergent was produced at a commercial scale. It took almost two more centuries for many of America's favorite laundry detergent brands to be established. Revolutionary products like OxiClean aren't even 20 years old. 

The world is ready for the next big disruptor in laundry. We want to do to laundry what Uber did for transportation and Airbnb did for hospitality. We think the next great laundry and fabric care product will come from the minds of millennials, a generation who looks at laundry a little differently than its forebears. 

Deliverables

Tell us your idea for how we can disrupt the future of laundry. Specifically:

  1. What is your idea for something that will completely change the way we do laundry or fabric care in the next five years?
  2. What aspect of laundry or fabric care will your idea disrupt?
  3. How will your idea encourage millennials to adopt this new approach to laundry?
    Submissions will be graded on the following criteria:
  • Meets Deliverables
  • Creativity
  • Clarity
Reward Tiers
Top 10%
will share $1,000
Next 15%
will share $400
Next 25%
will share $200
Actual individual rewards will be based on the total number of eligible solutions.
Leaderboard
$71.40 Saurabh Jain Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur
$71.40 Matthew Gaiser Queen's University
$71.40 Prashay Deo University of Houston
$71.40 Rowena P University College London
$71.40 Genesis Rodriguez University of Central Florida
$71.40 Nina S University Maastricht
$71.40 John Goodnough Sacred Heart University
$71.40 Josh Lyman University of Oregon
$71.40 Ansh Tayal National Institute of Technology Trichy
$71.40 Akash Tripathi NMIMS,Mumbsi
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$19.00 Karl R Georgia Institute of Technology
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$5.70 C W Princeton University
$5.70 Francis Daniel Santia Harvard University
$5.70 K M University of Calgary
$5.70 Elizabeth Zhao University of Texas at Dallas
$5.70 Siddhi Kasliwal Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay
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$5.70 Alyssa Gyle Penn Foster
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$5.70 David Schwartzberg University of Central Florida
$5.70 Karina Azarian KU Leuven
$5.70 Sarah B Bennington College
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$5.70 Parth Purohit Madras University
$5.70 Daniel Iglesias The Royal Academy
$5.70 Tanner Moore University of Central Florida
$5.70 Dave Cisek
$5.70 Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein Columbia University
$5.70 Erin Hanscom Ithaca College
$5.70 Kathleen Muir University of British Columbia
$5.70 Akshit Gupta NMIMS, Mumbai
Submission questions


What is your age?

(Required)

Who typically does your laundry?

(Required)
I do my own laundry
my spouse / significant other
my parent / guardian
a laundry service

Where do you do laundry?

(Required)
my home
my dorm
a laundromat
someone does my laundry elsewhere
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