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Carla Bartolucci

12 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 7, 2021 by Carla Bartolucci · across every show →

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Jun 7, 2021
Disclosure
Bartolucci rejected advisor pressure to make Jovial an einkorn-only brand
“A lot of advisors said, don't do anything but einkorn. You're the einkorn person. And I'm like, it's going to take years. Guy Raz: To get people to know what it is. Carla Bartolucci: I can't do that. I need to come up with, you know, something else.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 58:23 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Disclosure
Bartolucci: Sold Mystic Food Business for About $25,000 After One Year
“So after a year, we decided to put the business up for sale. We just wanted to move back to Italy. My husband always wanted to own a farm or something, and we sold the business for about, I think it was like, 25,000 dollars.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 18:09 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Assertion Open · timeframe Jun 2021
Bartolucci took a $65,000 mortgage on parents' house for startup capital
“And we took 65,000 dollar mortgage on my parents' house.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 25:40 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Disclosure
Bartolucci: Reinvested all profits annually instead of taking money out
“You're just gonna have to keep reinvesting your profits every year, and that's what I did.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 40:02 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bartolucci: Brother loaned her $85,000 to launch Bionaturae
“My brother loaned me 85,000 dollars.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 25:32 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jovial has fully covered employee health insurance from day one
“So from day one, I've always paid a hundred percent of every employee's health insurance and covered every expense, because we have this European kind of sensibility to things like that.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 1:13:22 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bionaturae reached about $15 million in annual sales around 2008
“I mean, we were about maybe fifteen million in sales and things were ok.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 39:34 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Guy Raz: Jovial Foods co-founder Carla Bartolucci passed away May 22
“On May 22nd, Carla passed away unexpectedly after a brief illness.”
Guy Raz Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 1:15:39 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Jovial Foods reached profitability after three years of tight operations
“I think we were profitable after the third year. Not immensely profitable, and I think we had two years where we lost money, but we've run a tight ship.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 1:06:25 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bypassing middlemen to source directly from Italian factories spiked profits
“So we went there and found new factories and suddenly realized that the pricing that we had was very unfair, and so when we went direct, we made a lot more money.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 41:12 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Insight
Jovial refuses outside funding, financing all expansion strictly through cash flow
“I don't spend money unless I have it, so if I want to do a project, I make sure that we make the money that we need to cover it, because you can choose what supermarkets or chains or whatever you present to. You don't have to say yes to everybody.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 1:10:01 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
Jun 7, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bartolucci: First Bionaturae order was a $20,000 20-foot container
“Our first order, I believe it was about 20,000 dollars. It was a 20 foot container.”
Carla Bartolucci Jun 7, 2021 ▶ 24:45 Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
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