Most businesses begin with a gap in the market. A spreadsheet, a pitch deck, a problem to be solved at scale. Made of Hands began with a pair of orange socks. My mother gave them to me one winter, knitted by hand by my grandmother. They fit perfectly. They were warm in a way that shop-bought socks never quite are. And they carried something — a texture, a weight, a specific kind of warmth — that I couldn’t stop thinking about long after that winter was over. That feeling be