Ken Grossman
14 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 30, 2020 by Guy Raz · said 7 times in 6 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Grossman Took Double His Co-Founder's Salary Due to a Workload Disparity
“At one point, it became a critical issue between us, and we did end up adjusting compensation, so I was making I don't know, double what he was making, and so we did try to address it, but, you know, as the business grew, and the value of the business grew, an…”
Mar 30, 2020 positive
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COVID-19 Onset Marked the Most Stressful Period in Sierra Nevada's History
“So it's, yeah, it's been you know, one of the most difficult and stressful weeks in our existence. I've had a lot of them over 40 years. You know, there's been a lot of sleepless nights, but this is sort of at the pinnacle of, you know, things for us to have t…”
Mar 30, 2020
Grossman Passed on an Opportunity to Buy an Established Bike Shop
“And I had the, I guess, the early opportunity right when I was committing to build the brewery to actually buy one of the bike shops I had worked in. The owner was getting out of the business and he would have sold it to me probably preferentially if I said I …”
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Brewery Valuations Hit $50M While Grossman Was Buying Out His Co-Founder
“The valuations across the industry were sort of all over the place, but also were going up pretty steadily and, you know, 30,000,040 1,000,050 million, and this you know, me buying Paul out took
Years to work through with attorneys”
Mar 30, 2020
Grossman Bought German Brewhouse Equipment for a $15,000 Scrap Value
“I bought their whole brewing side, so didn't get their packaging equipment, but bought the brew house, and paid
Basically the scrap value 15,000 dollars to buy all the equipment, and we spent more, more than that crating it and shipping it back to the U.S.”
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Ken Grossman Started Sierra Nevada With Only $17,000 in Capital
“So we had assembled 17,000 dollars, and between the two of us. I had sold my home brew shop for, you know, 3000 or 4000 dollars And I had some savings, and my grandfather had given me some bonds to go to college. I cashed all those in, and Paul had similar, so…”