Join Lily Comba and Sarah Crow in this tactical deep dive with Jay Hunter, CEO of Sprinter and launch lead of k2o by Sprinter, Kylie Jenner’s beauty-first hydration line.
D2C brands are no longer bound by neat category lines. A hydration mix can act like a beauty product. A vodka soda brand can expand into ingestible wellness.
The brands who are winning right now are the ones that can move with pace across categories, channels, and creator-led distribution without losing the through-line that makes them coherent.
Jay Hunter has built and scaled brands on both sides of that equation. As former CRO at MaryRuth's, he ran one of the most data-driven omnichannel operations in supplements. Now as CEO of Sprinter, he's leading the k2o launch — a Kylie Jenner–backed expansion from vodka soda into beauty-led hydration, going to market through DTC, TikTok Shop, iHerb, and Amazon.
Jay shares how a modern D2C brand actually operates when speed is the strategy and what it takes to combine founder/celebrity attention, creator distribution, and omnichannel retail into one playbook.






















