John Neman
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Jonathan Neman: Corporate social impact initiatives must also generate profit
“And I tell my team all the time, these things go hand in hand. Don't tell me, like, we're going to do things that are great, but they're not going to make money. You have to be able to mirror the two, this Capitalism with the social good, and I think people ge…”
Sweetgreen lost its entire executive team shortly after Neman became CEO
“Imagine I become CEO four years ago. Within three months, the whole executive team is gone. We're sitting there almost running out of cash and trying to pivot the company and wondering, like, are we suited to do this?”
Sweetgreen co-founders paid early staff using credit cards to survive
“A couple of our early winners, we almost did not make it. You know, we were pulling lines of credit, paying staff on our credit card, really doing anything we could do to save and stay alive.”