Freshpet

“We want to kind of trim back the growth just a little bit. We want to stay in that kind of thirty-ish percent range, and that's going to allow us to basically grow And be able to fund our growth going forward. And that's really the plan that we've laid out to …”

“They made an investment in us, and as part of the criteria, they had a basically a term in the agreement that means they could decide If they, we had had any other fundraising, what the terms were.”

“We feel as though the opportunity to deliver fresh food is where people are going to buy their fresh food over time, and that's going to be, they're typically going to make a trip to a store to do that. So that fresh trip is owned by the brick and mortar guys,…”

“We had over 40% growth the year we went public.”

“The last CEO that came in did not get along. And he said, let's get rid of all these other businesses. And they were basically like, well, what do we want to do with Fresh Pet? And he said, I don't care. Don't give them another penny. And because they had the …”

“And Charlie on his own the original angel investor and our chairman at that point stepped up and gave the company like an extended significant loan for a period of time in order to, for us to get through that period.”

“No, it didn't exist at all in the U.S. There was some raw food in the U.S., like what was originally done in Australia but it was frozen”

“We wanted to go with these open air refrigerators. And especially at night, the refrigeration or the air conditioning was turned off in the store, and the stores would get hotter, and the refrigerators just couldn't hold temp. So it, we ended up having to, ove…”

“Cahill and John actually both took out some loans and I had a little bit but we cobbled together, it was like, I think it was 875,000 dollars, if I remember the number initially”

“If I have one problem, I've got 25, or today, over 30,000 problems. Out there across the market, the number of fridges that we have.”

“We were fortunate enough in, in, in, in, to unwind the Tyson deal, and we brought in a private equity firm called Mid-Ocean Partners, and they invested in the company, and they helped fund it”

“Yeah, we, and that was us kind of starting to launch into owning all of our refrigerators, but it was, we not only ended up in the pet food business, but we ended up in the refrigerator business.”

“It ended up being a van that we literally ended up hiring someone to drive a van to deliver to the stores because that was one of the next challenges was no one wanted to carry the product for us. None of the distributors.”

“Even after We had made a little bit of progress with PetSmart and Petco, and we started talking to other retailers. It was back to the, you want me to do what? And I don't care if you were successful there. I don't think that's going to work in my store. And i…”