Gabi Lewis

9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 12, 2024 by Gabi Lewis · across every show →

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Feb 12, 2024 positive

Insight

Lewis: Protein bar businesses are easy to prototype at home

“The amazing thing about developing a protein bar business is you can make a basic version in your kitchen. You're just mushing ingredients together, forming it, and you can make lots of different iterations of it.”

Gabi Lewis Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 5:44 Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz

Feb 12, 2024 negative

Disclosure

Lewis: Selling Exo felt like a failure because his identity was attached

“It definitely felt like a failure for a while. And I think not only in the sense that we hadn't achieved the mission we set out to achieve, but we also self-identified as the cricket guys. We'd go to Expo West and trade shows, and we'd have our t-shirts that s…”

Gabi Lewis Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 36:28 Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz

Feb 12, 2024

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Lewis: Early investors told Magic Spoon founders to avoid the word 'cereal'

“You know, some investors we spoke to were so anti the idea. They actually said to us, okay, you can do this, but don't use the word cereal. That's a dirty word. You've got to call it clusters or rebrand cereal somehow.”

Gabi Lewis Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 53:34 Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz

Feb 12, 2024

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Lewis: Half of Magic Spoon's 2022 funding provided liquidity for early investors

“It's also worth mentioning that we've raised a little over a hundred million, but the most recent round, which was about a year and a half ago, about half of that round went to some early investors to give them liquidity.”

Gabi Lewis Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 1:05:54 Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz

Feb 12, 2024

Assertion Supported

Lewis: Magic Spoon raised over $100M across four years

“We've raised a little over a hundred million over the course of four years.”

Gabi Lewis Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 1:05:29 Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz

Feb 12, 2024 positive

Insight

Lewis: Novel foods mainstream when hidden in familiar formats like California rolls

“There's a long history of foods that at one point were viewed as bizarre in the U S you could look at sushi, for example, which 50 years ago, eating raw fish was a little bit strange to most Americans, and the way it became popularized was that a chef in LA cr…”

Gabi Lewis Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 16:55 Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz

Feb 12, 2024

Disclosure

Lewis: Exo did roughly $1M in revenue in its first year

“The first million dollars or so, which was roughly what we did in the first year after launch, was faster and easier than anybody would have predicted for a company selling cricket bars.”

Gabi Lewis Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 30:25 Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz

Feb 12, 2024

Disclosure

Lewis: Tim Ferriss, Robb Wolf, and Mark Sisson invested in Exo

“We were able to leverage what at the time was almost all of the names in the paleo world, whether it's John Duran, Mark Sisson, Rob Wolf, Tim Ferriss, all of those people who came on board as advisors or investors in the business.”

Gabi Lewis Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 28:47 Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz

Feb 12, 2024 negative

Opinion

Lewis: Early protein bars were mostly candy bars masquerading as health food

“The main idea was that let's just create a protein bar that is legitimately good for you, unlike at the time what was mostly a sea of candy bars masquerading as health bars.”

Gabi Lewis Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 5:18 Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz

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