Curt Jones

“I sometimes say if we'd had a 100,000 dollars in the bank, we might not have wanted to risk it, but I felt like if it didn't work, I was still young enough that I could probably still get a job somewhere.”

“I found that you could pour the nitrogen into the cultures and freeze a big, big blob, or you could pour the cultures into the nitrogen and freeze a big blob, but I found that if you dribbled it in a little at a time, That you could actually form pellets.”

“Was the fact that milk prices had gone up 34% that year. Gas prices started going up a lot between 2006 and 2007. And then our liquid nitrogen cost went up like 10%. And so all of a sudden, on, on almost the same sales, we had went from like a net of two or th…”

“But on the day that that three-month extension was due, we got an email that said, you're in default because you have not paid your credit line down. This puts all of your term loans in default as well.”

“So we ended up having to come up with basically four million dollars At the end of this lawsuit, so we had spent six million, we ended up spending four on, on them. Wow. And I had to spend an additional 750,000 dollars to appeal this decision to get my name cl…”

“At the peak that would have been 2006. We did 40, almost forty seven million in sales. I think it was right at forty seven million.”

“What would you do different if you know, if you look back now, and I suppose the correct answer is like, well, I would have settled, and then it wouldn't have cost me ten million dollars, but my answer is that I probably would do the same thing again, because …”

“I think our total sales for that whole nine month period was like 52,000 dollars. And of course we had more than 52,000 dollars in expense. I can assure you.”

“So we grabbed about a, I think it was a little quart mason jar of the mix, and drove out to the lab, and I pulled out probably about a half a gallon of liquid nitrogen into a cylinder, and I took a pipette, and I took some of the ice cream mix, and I dropped i…”

“Yeah, I mean, we had at one point, I think we had between 30 and 40,000 dollars in credit card debt with, you know, with a business that wasn't making money, so we were We were struggling, you know, well, the first few years, we struggled quite a bit.”