Gary Hirshberg
29 statements across 4 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 2, 2017 by Gary Hirshberg · said 17 times in 8 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
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Oct 2, 2017 neutral
Oct 2, 2017
Oct 2, 2017 neutral
Hirshberg: Stonyfield raised from 297 individuals after VCs passed
“And, you know, what you have to know at the punchline of this story is that I wound up by the end of this period with 297 individual investors. There was no way to find common ground with an institutional investor, right? A venture capitalist. Believe me, I kn…”
Oct 2, 2017
Oct 2, 2017 neutral
Oct 2, 2017 neutral
Hirshberg: Stonyfield accumulated $2.7M in debt by Christmas 1989
“Well, by the, by Christmas of 87, you know, running this factory for two months, I can tell you we were already 600,000 dollars in debt. By Christmas of 88, we were 1.9 million dollars in debt. By Christmas of the next year we were 2.7 million dollars in debt.”
Oct 2, 2017
Hirshberg: Stonyfield raised $100K in hours to retrieve seized inventory
“Worse than that, I had to come up with a 100,000 dollars to take my in, get my inventory out of the building. Because again, we owed them co-packing fees. Now the bank's the owner. And so I had to go, call my shareholders and find a 100,000 dollars within hour…”
Oct 2, 2017
Hirshberg: Stonyfield cracked retail by having Frisbee teammates demand it
“So in July of 84, I had my 30th birthday at the farm, and my, I had my old Ultimate Frisbee team come up to visit me, most of whom lived in Cambridge, as you might imagine. And I said, look, It's wonderful you've all come. If you want to give me a really good …”
Oct 2, 2017
Oct 2, 2017 neutral
Oct 2, 2017
Aug 19, 2019
Aug 19, 2019 negative
Stonyfield Was Funded by 297 Angel Investors After VC Rejections
“What you have to know at the punchline of this story is that I wound up by the end of this period with 297 individual investors. There was no way to find common ground with an institutional investor, right? A venture capitalist. Believe me, I knocked on every …”
Aug 19, 2019 positive
Aug 19, 2019
Aug 19, 2019
Aug 19, 2019 negative
Stonyfield's Debt Reached $2.7 Million by Christmas 1989
“Well, by the, by Christmas of 87, you know, running this factory for two months, I can tell you we were already 600,000 dollars in debt. By Christmas of 88, we were 1.9 million dollars in debt. By Christmas of the next year we were 2.7 million dollars in debt.”
Aug 19, 2019
Aug 19, 2019
Stonyfield Needed $100K in Hours to Recover Co-Packer Inventory
“Worse than that, I had to come up with a 100,000 dollars to take my in, get my inventory out of the building. Because again, we owed them co-packing fees. Now the bank's the owner. And so I had to go, call my shareholders and find a 100,000 dollars within hour…”
Aug 19, 2019 positive
Self-Directed Colleges Are the Best Entrepreneurial Training
“It turns out that it was probably the best training for an entrepreneur that there is, because this is a school... That has no credits, no requirements, no grades. You only pass, matriculate through by contracting and making progress with, ah, individual profe…”
Aug 19, 2019
Aug 19, 2019
Aug 19, 2019
Danone Bought 80% of Stonyfield But Left Hirshberg in Control
“The original head of M&A who came to see me said Gary, do you mean to tell me we're going to buy 80% of your company and you'll still be in control? And I said, yes. And the banker and the lawyers and everyone laughed. And, you know, two years later, that's th…”
Aug 19, 2019
Stonyfield Raised $500,000 After Mother-In-Law's $100,000 Loan
“My mother-in-law, excuse me. And I started raising, and I got to about two 75, 300. This is sort of a month or so later, she said, well, I think we can increase, and so she increased to a hundred, and eventually I got across the finish line, got the 500.”
Aug 19, 2019 neutral
Aug 19, 2019 positive
Nov 14, 2024
Nov 14, 2024
Hirshberg: Mission-driven founders fail when ignoring the commercial core
“And, you know, again, this is this sort of, ah, theme, I think, that happens as entrepreneurs with a mission, ah, you know, the brand or the company, sometimes, ah, they forget, right, that that's actually what enables them to get to their platform, so, ah, im…”
Aug 31, 2026 positive
Dawes: Hirshberg structured Snyder's-Lance deal to retain board control
“Gary Hirshberg was a great mentor to us, and he helped us structure a deal that still effectively gave us control of the board, which allowed us to really still control our destiny. And at this point, we were profitable, you know, so, like, we were a good addi…”