Justin Gold
18 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 31, 2020 by Justin Gold · said 11 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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2026 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
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Oct 31, 2020
Oct 31, 2020
Early-stage CPG brands must completely saturate their home markets before expanding regionally
“The first thing you have to do is start locally, right? You have to own your home. And that gives you some success there. Then once you own your home, you have permission to move out to the next layer. And the next layer can be specialty gourmet stores. It can…”
Oct 31, 2020 positive
Oct 31, 2020
Justin Gold used squeeze packs to drive trials for expensive almond butter
“Launched at the farmer's market, and when I launched, it was just with the jars, and I got them into a few local stores, and I was really struggling, and what got us kind of noticed, I guess you could say, was getting outside the jar and getting into a squeeze…”
Oct 31, 2020
Founders must hit production volumes before outsourcing manufacturing to focus on sales
“I also realized that I'm not really a skilled operator. My passion and skill is outside of the manufacturing, but I knew that I had to hit certain volumes in order to get to a manufacturing facility where then I could focus on other things, sales, marketing, a…”
May 25, 2026 positive
Retail founders should memorize detailed personal notes on individual store staff
“The biggest advice I can give to an entrepreneur who's doing this, I kept a notebook, and in my notebook, Was the names of all the stores and the people who worked in those stores. So when I would walk back into a Houston, Texas, Whole Foods, I hadn't been in …”
May 25, 2026 neutral
Low-risk trial size was the primary driver of Justin's squeeze pack sales
“The number three reason why people were buying the squeeze packs was for, you know, portable protein, right? And I was like, oh, well, that's why I created it. I'm glad. Put it on fruit, put it on, you know, on a piece of toast. That's great. The number two re…”
May 25, 2026 neutral
Peanut butter faces lower retail velocity than daily consumer energy snacks
“And for a consumer, you might buy peanut butter once a month. If you're a heavy consumer, once a week or once every two weeks. And so It just wasn't flying off the shelves like a bar or an energy drink would because you'd have one every day.”
May 25, 2026 negative
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May 25, 2026
Justin Gold raised his initial $35,000 seed capital from his family
“My first investors were my uncle, my mom and dad, and my sister. And then I was able to kind of, you know, get some inheritance that, you know, was Being saved for me by, you know, my grandma. So I was able to get 35,000 dollars together, and That's how I got …”
May 25, 2026 positive
Founders should stay post-acquisition to learn corporate scaling for future ventures
“If someone's going to acquire your company and they want to scale it and grow it and turn it into a larger company, I would like to learn and figure out how they, what the unlocks are so I can maybe either do it again or help other companies achieve that.”
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