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Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz Feb 12, 2024 · 31 mentions

• ▶ 3:31 Guy Raz For nearly five years, they ran a startup called Exo that sold a protein bar made of cricket flour, as in those chirping insects crickets.
• ▶ 8:34 Greg Sewitz And we were sort of struck by some of the facts in the, that report where crickets consume far less feed, far less water, and produce equal amounts of protein, but the hiccup, obviously, is that they're crickets, and we have, we have no,…
• ▶ 15:35 Gabi Lewis I think regardless of the book, launching XO and Magic Spoon has been.
• ▶ 17:44 Guy Raz And, and you guys came up with the name Exo as an exoskeleton, presumably. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 31:16 Guy Raz Say what you will about it, but it, it is, you know, it is certainly something that people point to, and you're getting attention, and you're getting people wanting to invest in the brand, I think, to, at a certain point, you, you guys… 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 35:39 Guy Raz So what was the thing that sort of prompted you to, to sell this business? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 38:00 Gabi Lewis So we, we basically wanted to have the opposite experience from what we had at EXO.
• ▶ 46:55 Gabi Lewis As soon as we became clear with ourselves that this was the bet we were going to place and we're going to get into the serial game, we actually called up many of the old investors from EXO and collaborative fund, which was the first VC in… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 55:04 Guy Raz All right, you had a playbook from Exo, which was, you 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 59:21 Gabi Lewis Yeah, that, that was the playbook that we developed at Exo. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:03:41 Greg Sewitz I think we learned a lot at EXO about making sure supply chains can handle the demand, and so one of the reasons why we delayed going to retail for so long is that we really wanted to be ready for
• ▶ 1:07:52 Gabi Lewis From the early days, it was obvious to us that this was going to be so much bigger, so much faster than XO. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:09:04 Guy Raz And you think about where you've come from and, and, and XO and all that happened. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:10:41 Guy Raz As for the XO protein bars, as we mentioned earlier, they're still available on the company's website, along with cricket flour and recipes for how to use it. 2 times in the scene