Glenn Gardone

Everything Glenn Gardone said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

WE LIVE TO BUILD Insight

People who repeatedly make the same mistake and apologize are con artists

“The person that sits there and makes the same mistake over and over again, and apologizes each and every time, they're a con artist. They're an absolute con artist.”

Glenn Gardone Apr 23, 2023 ▶ 28:08 He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him

WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sidelining ego-driven founders allowed Gardone to scale one company by 100x

“Four times I walked into a situation like that, and we, you know, quintupled the size of the company, and, you know, one we did over a hundred times the size of the company, because we didn't have that that ego cloud. We, you know, put them out to pasture, so …”

Glenn Gardone Apr 23, 2023 ▶ 23:28 He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him

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Red Chocolate is in 15,000 store doors in North America

“Now you'll find us in 15,000 store doors.”

Glenn Gardone Apr 23, 2023 ▶ 3:52 He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him

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Red Chocolate grossed $29 million in the US and 4x globally

“Just the U.S. Globally, we're about four times that size. We're in about 28 countries now. When I joined, we were in about 18 countries.”

Glenn Gardone Apr 23, 2023 ▶ 4:25 He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him

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Glenn Gardone sold five companies over 12 years in private equity

“And fast forward about let's see, 12 years later as I started the journey on the private equity side, and Had sold the company, and, ah, we've done it five times”

Glenn Gardone Apr 23, 2023 ▶ 1:39 He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him

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Red Chocolate is the number one chocolate on Home Shopping Network

“You'll find us as the number one chocolate home shopping network.”

Glenn Gardone Apr 23, 2023 ▶ 3:59 He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him

The other half of the tape: Glenn Gardone's own voice is left out of every number here. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Glenn Gardone, by other people (1)

WE LIVE TO BUILD Opinion

Weisbrot: Legacy Corporate Employees Discourage Ambitious Juniors Out of Laziness

“What I hear from that story is that those people were lazy and didn't want you showing them up. They don't want you to make their job harder by setting an example to other people that this is what you should expect from your employees.”

Sean Weisbrot Apr 23, 2023 ▶ 16:36 He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Glenn's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
WE LIVE TO BUILDLEDGER	President & CEO, RED Chocolate	1	6	—	full record on We Live to Build →