David

8 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 8, 2025 by Peter Rahal · said 33 times in 19 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Aug 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Open · timeframe Aug 2026
Processed David bars test cleaner for microplastics than agricultural RXBARs
“RX bars were like really bad on, on plasticizers. So microplastics and RX bars predominantly an agricultural product. It's dates, almonds, eggs. David scores like is super clean. It doesn't have any plasticizers, heavy metals, and that's because of its process…”
Peter Rahal Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 34:57 20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Insight
Processed food value should be measured by calories from protein
“And in general, for processed foods and broadly, the value of a processed food should be measured by calories coming from protein.”
Peter Rahal Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 27:16 20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
David protein bars will hit $100M revenue in first year
“And then with David, he's raised eighty-five million dollars from Green Oaks, Peter Atiyah, Andrew Huberman, and in their first year alone, they're gonna do a hundred million dollars in revenue.”
Harry Stebbings Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 0:42 20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Peter Rahal estimates David protein bars' TAM at $1.0B to $1.5B
“So David's TAM, I think was one point, like one to 1.5 billion.”
Peter Rahal Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 54:18 20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
Aug 8, 2025
Disclosure
Peter Rahal required advisors Peter Attia and Andrew Huberman to invest capital
“Yeah, it was investing through skin in the game.”
Peter Rahal Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 52:23 20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
David protein bars raised funding at a $650 million pre-money valuation
“Six 50, pre.”
Peter Rahal Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 52:57 20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2028
Peter Rahal projects David's worst-case outcome is a $1.5 billion valuation
“Yeah. So that would be like the underwriting for like worst case scenario, sort of like, if they don't really do what they're saying they're going to do, this would be a minimum 1,000,000,005, something like that.”
Peter Rahal Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 53:35 20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
David will scale its multi-brand portfolio through internal creation, not M&A
“The difference is Mars has done it through M&A. We'll do it through creation.”
Peter Rahal Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 55:16 20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
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