Gary Erickson
16 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 3, 2016 by Gary Erickson · said 28 times in 21 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2019 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2018 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
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Oct 3, 2016
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Oct 3, 2016
Erickson bootstrapped Clif Bar via outsourced baking and deferred payments
“So we tried to make it in our bakery, we just didn't have the equipment to do it. So I found a bakery down the street that agreed to help me produce it, like a, like almost like a cookie bakery. And we leveraged the packaging companies and said, We'll pay you.…”
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May 7, 2020 neutral
Gary Erickson: The Pandemic Fully Tested Clif Bar's Five-Bottom-Line Business Model
“This is the first time that our business model is put to kind of a full test. Like, it's easy when you're like, not easy, but, so we have this five bottom lines business model, you know, sustaining our business, our brands, our people, our community, and our p…”
May 7, 2020
Gary Erickson: Waiting Three Days to Make Crisis Decisions is Fatal
“And then as soon as you can take some action and don't sit on things because we don't have time to sit on things. We've been making decisions where we have to act now or tomorrow. And if we wait three days, sorry, we're screwed. So Adapt and take some action.”
May 7, 2020 positive
May 9, 2024
Erickson: A 25-person field sampling team drove Clif Bar's early growth
“We had a team of 25 people around the country, and then they had local people that they would hire for the weekend events, and I really think that's what put us on the map, but our product was, ah, inexpensive enough where we could actually give out whole bars…”
May 9, 2024
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May 9, 2024 bullish
May 9, 2024 neutral
Erickson: Launching directly into mass retail usually fails without niche base
“You have to have that foundation first, and then from there you go out. If you're going to try to go mass market, you have to have so much funding to be able to do that, and chances are it's not going to work, because you've got to build that base.”