Ben Goodwin

17 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 2, 2024 by Ben Goodwin · across every show →

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Sep 2, 2024
Disclosure
Ben Goodwin spent $300K to $350K of his own money on R&D
“And I would say I probably spent about Three to 350,000 dollars out of my own, almost entirely out of my own pocket over that, those four years.”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 21:54 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024
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Goodwin: Obi raised about $900,000 in its initial funding round
“Eventually the first chunk of funding, I think we raised about 900 K in our first, on our first go, and it was just this assorted network that we had built up enough rapport with”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 31:28 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024
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Ben Goodwin signed non-compete barring him from probiotics after Obi
“I basically signed a document saying I wouldn't go back into probiotics.”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 38:29 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024 neutral
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Ben Goodwin: Olipop has no plans to sell; investors feel no pressure
“What's nice is with the way that we're growing I have no plans to sell the company right now. So I'm fortunate that I don't, we don't feel a lot of pressure from our investors because they're all so up on their money already.”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 1:05:40 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024
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Goodwin: Obi payout was enough to live on and launch Olipop
“We made enough that we were able to live off of that and use it to start Olipop”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 39:15 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024
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Goodwin: Obi reached about $1 million in revenue after two years
“After that kind of, you know, two-ish years, we were up at about a million bucks in revenue, and really, yeah, we were checking along.”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 35:44 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024 positive
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Goodwin: Startup co-founders must share identical, merciless obsession with the mission
“You really do need someone just mercilessly obsessed as you are on, on what's important about what you're doing, right? They can't have a problem rolling their sleeves up. You're co-pilots together in a plane that barely flies that's going a thousand miles an …”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 25:43 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024
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Goodwin: Consumers will not switch beverage habits without leading with flavor
“Good, good luck trying to get a bunch of people to switch their behavior if something doesn't lead with delicious flavor. And when we Talk to our consumers and try to figure out, hey, what's contributed to our kind of growth and the high level of kind of advoc…”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 48:40 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024
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Ben Goodwin: Electrostatic guns and Ziploc bags create low-cost bioreactors
“You buy a bunch of Ziploc bags, because they're pre-sterilized. And you get an electrostatic gun, and you run the electrostatic gun over the Ziploc bags to create micro punctures. So all of a sudden you create this sterilized breathable membrane, and then you …”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 20:11 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Goodwin: 2020 Pandemic Shifted Olipop Customers to Multi-Can Weekly Stockups
“It turned out that for those customers that had discovered us and basically were falling in love with the brand, they were already considering it in an essential shop for the week. So people weren't just going in and grabbing a can. They were going in and grab…”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 1:00:55 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024 neutral
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Goodwin: Formulated Custom Stevia Blend Due to Inadequate Commercial Options
“I developed my own stevia blend to sweeten the drink with, because I didn't like any of the technology that was on the market.”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 30:17 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 2, 2024 neutral
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Ben Goodwin: Investors prefer clear founder archetypes like 'mad scientist'
“I think that people really love to create categorizations for other folks, so it allowed people to put me in the, oh yeah, he's the kind of brilliant, mad scientist-y guy, and here's the kind of corporate guy, and they, it allowed them to categorize us in a wa…”
Ben Goodwin Sep 2, 2024 ▶ 29:30 Olipop: Ben Goodwin
Sep 3, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Goodwin: Human Study Shows Olipop Vintage Cola Keeps Blood Sugar Stable
“We just published our first piece of human research on blood sugar stability. And we found that, you know, in that research, Olipop didn't spike people's blood sugar, kept their blood sugar stable. We were studying the vintage cola in that one.”
Ben Goodwin Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 5:29 Advice Line with Ben Goodwin of Olipop
Sep 3, 2026 negative
Insight
Goodwin: Hearing Terms Are 'Market' Means Entrepreneurs Should Push Back
“Anytime I hear the quote, something's market, you know, it's like a, and everyone kind of goes, oh, this is kind of what you need to learn how to accept, and I'm kind of like, that, the second you tell me that something is market is the second I know that we h…”
Ben Goodwin Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 6:32 Advice Line with Ben Goodwin of Olipop
Sep 3, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Goodwin: Olipop Employs About 280 People, Targeting 300 by Q1
“We're sitting at about two 80 right now, and you know, we might have closer to 300 end of this year, Q one of next year.”
Ben Goodwin Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 4:01 Advice Line with Ben Goodwin of Olipop
Sep 3, 2026
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Goodwin: Food Products Must Win Blind Taste Tests Over Health Claims
“So then, you know, number one's always taste, right? So if you quote blind taste tests against all your major competition, especially in your price point, Are you coming out on top? If you basically aren't getting a yes, then the structural argument behind the…”
Ben Goodwin Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 12:34 Advice Line with Ben Goodwin of Olipop
Sep 3, 2026 bullish
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Goodwin: Olipop Gross Revenue Tops $500M, Targeting $1 Billion
“My target right now in my head is, okay, I need to get to a billion dollars gross revenue. We're well over a half billion and we're chugging towards that line.”
Ben Goodwin Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 5:50 Advice Line with Ben Goodwin of Olipop
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