Founder Statement About

Mara Okonkwo, founder of Polaris, in the studio
Why We Started
Most studios sell hours. We wanted to sell outcomes you could measure, so we built Polaris to put its name on the number, not the timesheet.

Mara Okonkwo

Founder & Creative Director

2017

Founded in Oslo

120+

Brands shipped

9

Senior people

Read the story
About this block

Founder Statement AboutPRO

About built around a dark founder portrait card with a pull-quote, signature, and supporting stats.

About49: Founder Statement About

A single dark card split into a founder portrait on one side and a pull-quote with a signature line, stat trio, and CTA on the other, all inside one bg-foreground panel rather than a plain section background.

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Installation

Swap YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_KEY for the email and license key on your account. Find your license key on your account page.

Radix flavor

bash
npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r/about49?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

bash
npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/about49?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/about49.tsx, the badge6 and button1 components it uses for the eyebrow label and CTA button, and its dependencies.

Quick start

The installed file exports about49Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working section in one line.

tsx
import { About49, about49Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/about49";

export default function AboutPage() {
  return <About49 {...about49Demo} />;
}

Then replace the demo with your own props. Written out, the same setup looks like this:

tsx
import { About49 } from "@/components/beste/block/about49";

export default function AboutPage() {
  return (
    <About49
      label="Why we started"
      quote="Most companies sell hours. We wanted to sell outcomes you could measure."
      founder={{ name: "Amara Boateng", role: "Founder & CEO" }}
      image={{
        src: "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1617791291756-582b2dce0b3e?w=800&h=1000&fit=crop",
        alt: "Amara Boateng, founder, in the office",
      }}
      button={{ label: "Read the story", href: "https://beste.co" }}
      stats={[
        { value: "2019", label: "Founded in Lagos" },
        { value: "80+", label: "Products shipped" },
        { value: "6", label: "Senior people" },
      ]}
    />
  );
}

Props

PropTypeDefaultDescription
labelstringEyebrow badge text above the quote
quotestringPull-quote, rendered as plain text
founderFounderName and role shown under the quote with a short accent line
imageImageItemFounder portrait filling the left/first column
buttonActionLinkCTA rendered as a Button1 at the bottom of the panel
statsStatItem[][]Three-column stat row above the button
classNamestringExtra classes for the outer <section>
ts
type Founder = { name: string; role: string };
type ImageItem = { src: string; alt: string };
type ActionLink = { label: string; href: string };
type StatItem = { value: string; label: string };

Behavior notes

  • The entire card is bg-foreground text-background, so Badge6 is given labelClassName="text-background/70" and Button1 is given tone="primary" to stay legible against the dark fill, rather than relying on the components' light-surface defaults.
  • The layout is lg:grid-cols-[0.85fr_1.15fr] with the portrait as a flush-bleed image column (min-h-full on lg) and the quote/stats column carrying the panel's padding; the portrait scales up slightly on hover (group-hover/about49:scale-105).
  • The founder's name and role are preceded by a short horizontal accent rule (h-px w-10 bg-primary) instead of an avatar or icon.
  • The stats row is a fixed grid-cols-3; passing fewer than three stats leaves empty grid tracks rather than the columns re-flowing, and more than three wraps to a second row.
  • The content column uses justify-between so the quote/founder block anchors to the top and the stats/button block anchors to the bottom of the panel, independent of quote length.

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