Todd Graves

“Todd Graves is the founder of this place called Raising Canes. Todd Graves sells chicken fingers. That is all he does. He just happens to do it better than any of us in the world. And he has done that for 25 years with extreme levels of focus, and he's worth t…”

“He never raised outside equity after this, And some of the boilermakers, like Wild Bill, one of the few, like, angel investors that would put in money to raising canes, and then he also said that he raised money from his bookie.”

“What was fascinating is the way that Todd thought about this is like, I'm not setting up another entity, right? This is not a separate company. We're operating on a corporate level, the Post Malone Raising Cane's. This is just part of our marketing budget.”

“And he's like, well, we have 50,000 crew members at the time. Let's buy lottery tickets. You know, it'd just be fun. Each ticket's like two bucks. Cost us a hundred grand. And we'll agree that if any one of the 50,000 people win this eight hundred and ten mill…”

“This guy has turned down billions and billions of dollars and says later on, That he never even thought about taking the money for a second.”

“I didn't have to go through shareholders. I didn't have to go through a board that might say, Hey, I don't know if it's safe to do that. Should we wait another two weeks? What are our competitors doing? I don't have to answer to anybody, but my crew and my cus…”

“He owns over 90% of it, and the business, his business is worth at least ten billion dollars,”

“This guy's gonna have thousands of stores.”

“That guy owns. 90% of a business that's worth at least ten billion dollars and he's growing at 30% a year.”