Cameron Healy

10 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 2, 2026 by Cameron Healy · across every show →

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Mar 2, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Healy: Kettle Foods largely self-funded rapid UK factory expansion
“We had to keep expanding the factory and buying more equipment, and those were big investments, but we were able to you know, we had a small banking relationship, but largely we were self-funded in our growth, which was pretty amazing, actually.”
Cameron Healy Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 43:07 Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
Mar 2, 2026
Disclosure
Healy declined an advisory role and immediately walked away after buyout
“Yeah, I didn't you know, we were, Tim and I were given a small incentive to be advisors for a year, but we both sat in on the first conference call with the Operator that Lion Capital had brought in to oversee the company, a Scotsman, very dynamic, forceful in…”
Cameron Healy Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 55:46 Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
Mar 2, 2026
Assertion Supported
Healy: Kettle Foods reached $100M in sales before selling minority stake
“Yes, we were, by that point, you know, we're doing about a hundred million dollars in sales scaling and scaled, but Tim and I were the board of directors.”
Cameron Healy Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 52:35 Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Healy: Kona Brewing lost about $20,000 monthly for several years
“It kind of plateaued at a certain sales that Causing it to lose about 20,000 dollars a month. And this went on not for months, but for several years.”
Cameron Healy Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 49:59 Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
Mar 2, 2026
Disclosure
Healy: Only borrowed money from father once to launch distribution truck
“I talked my father into loaning me a little bit of money to buy an old refrigerated truck. It was the only time I ever borrowed money from him, and I started distributing raw milk, and so it was initially dairy-oriented,”
Cameron Healy Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 6:13 Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
Mar 2, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Healy was fired without severance from the communal businesses he founded
“I was the progenitor of all the businesses in this community. I was always coming up with the next vision and next products, and I think that I was just a threat to kind of what was a movement to slow it down and make it a little more conservative, so I was, S…”
Cameron Healy Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 7:58 Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Healy capitalized his early business by speculating on peanut contracts
“I had a broker. I was buying all my peanuts through, and he tipped me off that there was gonna be a big crop failure that year because of drought, and so I went very bullish. I speculated, which was, Really crazy. And I contracted way, way more nuts than I act…”
Cameron Healy Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 11:51 Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
Mar 2, 2026
Disclosure
Healy secured a $10,000 bank loan by offering Mount Bachelor ski passes
“I got to know a local banker in Salem who happened to be a avid skier at, in Mount Bachelor, and so I talked him into Giving me a 10,000 dollar working capital loan, and I sweetened the pot with a bunch of free passes to Mount Batchelor.”
Cameron Healy Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 9:45 Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Healy co-funded a Salem biodiesel startup with Willie Nelson using waste oil
“By the way, in the early 2000, Cameron was looking for a way to make sure that all that oil used to make kettle chips didn't go to waste. So he funded a biodiesel startup in Salem that still exists today, and he did it with another old hippie who's also a voca…”
Guy Raz Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 59:16 Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Insight
Healy: Kettle Chips was inspired by Maui Chips sourcing Oregon potatoes
“Well, if this guy can make such a splash and be in the Wall Street Journal and have this kind of cult following, and he's bringing his potatoes all the way from Oregon, and I'm based in Oregon, I can do this.”
Cameron Healy Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 15:37 Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
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