Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP

“She put in an order for 25 trucks. That was What, four or 500,000 dollars worth. It was crazy.”

“We went to the grocery store and we looked online, and what we saw at the time was in the grocery store, it was Orville, it was Vicks, it was Cracker Jack, Poppycock, Dale and Thomas, Harry and David, and I just turned to Dan and I said, where are the popcorn …”

“8000 dollars.”

“It was that first non-GMO branded popcorn on the market, and it became our number one selling skew in four months.”

“I've seen a lot of really good people work just as hard as us, or harder, and not experience the same good fortune that we've had, and so I think it does take, I mean, we made a conscious effort to create goodwill and positivity, and when you do that, I believ…”

“We called them, and we bought it on a credit card like everyone else, and we bought it, we got a kettle, a tent, you know, if you go to a fair, one of those outdoor kettles, and all the equipment, a table, it probably wasn't worth eight or 10,000, but we, it w…”

“Millions.”

“And it said, ah, call for a 100,000 dollars, and I got on the phone one night and said, can we get this 100,000 dollars wired to us, and our credit was good, and so they wired us a 100,000 dollars.”

“Maybe three, four million.”

“Yeah, but we used another credit card to pay off that credit card. There was a lot of credit cards going around at that time.”

“And they helped us set up a an employee equity pool. They helped us set up a board. They helped us set up a professional sales team and build a marketing team.”

“Maybe three, four million.”

“And it was that first non-GMO branded popcorn on the market, and it became our number one selling skew in four months. The yellow bag.”

“Yeah, those granted equity shares became liquid for our staff best three days of my career.”

“We called them, and we bought it on a credit card like everyone else, and we bought it, we got a kettle, a tent, you know, if you go to a fair, one of those outdoor kettles, and all the equipment, a table, it probably wasn't worth eight or 10,000, but we, it w…”

“It, that, so that's November 21st, 2001. This was my first winter in Minnesota, so I decided the date that we were going to do it, and Dan was like, well, ok, November 21st. Let's see what happens. And fortunately, it was a beautiful fall day, and it took us a…”

“She put in an order for 25 trucks... That was What, four or 500,000 dollars worth.”

“So we went to the grocery store, and we looked online, and what we saw at the time was in the grocery store, it was Orville, it was Vicks, it was Cracker Jack, Poppycock, Dale and Thomas, Harry and David, and I just turned to Dan, and I said, where are the pop…”

“And I think both Ange and I probably would have tried to spend more time with each other, taking a step back. For us, it really did damage to us in, in the sense of just Physically, you know, our bodies, and emotionally, and all of that, and I think, you know,…”

“I mean, that's what happened with us, with Sherbrooke Capital, and They took a minority position, and we ran the company no different than when we did before they came on.”

“Which was our home. Future earnings. Everything but the minivan.”

“I mean, we financed everything on our own up until ten million. I mean, we had loans and we had a lot of debt and we went, you know, really, I think around the one million mark is when we went to a bank and got financing to build out our plant.”