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Arran Stephens

11 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 23, 2022 by Arran Stephens · across every show →

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May 23, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arran and Ratana Stephens married through an arrangement before dating
“Yeah, we actually ended up getting married without dating Without living together, but it felt perfectly fine. It felt this was the way it really was meant to be. We got married and fell in love in that order.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 14:57 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
May 23, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arran Stephens: Lifestream reached about $12 million in annual sales
“No, it was about twelve million.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 26:51 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
May 23, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nature's Path faked its factory launch using competitors' cornflakes
“We did not turn the factory on. We invited everybody there, and we went out and bought the big, giant competitors' cornflakes, and we sprinkled them on the conveyor belt.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 47:47 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
May 23, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nature's Path averaged one buyout approach per week from major firms
“We were getting an average of one a week.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 1:11:02 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
May 23, 2022
Assertion Supported
Stephens: There Were No Vegetarian Restaurants in Canada in 1967
“I thought that when I go back to Canada, I would like to start a vegetarian restaurant because me being a vegetarian, and there was no place for vegetarians to eat at that time.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 5:56 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
May 23, 2022
Assertion Supported
Arran Stephens helped develop the official USDA organic rule
“I was involved in the development of the USDA organic rule when I served on the Organic Trade Association.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 42:28 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
May 23, 2022 bullish
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Arran Stephens: Lifestream doubled revenue yearly for several consecutive years
“And that business, it doubled every year for several years in a row.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 22:59 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
May 23, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arran Stephens started the Golden Lotus with a $1,500 loan
“I borrowed 1500 dollars, and I found the assets of a failed restaurant about 10 blocks away. I bought those assets for 500 dollars.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 9:12 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
May 23, 2022
Disclosure
Ratana Stephens demanded Nature's Path take zero outside partners
“That he will not have another partner. It will be family business. We will be the partners, and he will not interfere what I will be doing.”
Ratana Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 52:17 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
May 23, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nature's Path recovered its full broken equipment cost via legal settlement
“Well, actually, we threatened to sue him, and rather than face a lawsuit, he came up and settled out of court and reimbursed us the entire cost of the equipment.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 50:13 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
May 23, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arran Stephens sold his $12M business Lifestream for under $2 million
“No, no, we sold it for less than two million.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 31:08 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
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