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Lily’s Sweets: Cynthia Tice
- ▶ 1:29 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Cynthia Tice started her first brand at an age when many people are planning to retire and grew Lily's Sweets into a four hundred million dollar business. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:36 Cynthia Tice So, as we're conceiving of what to call this brand, we knew that we wanted to have a charitable component to it, and we decided to call it Lily's in honor of Lily. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:54 Guy Raz Lilies. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:33 Cynthia Tice Um, so Lily's was an LLC, and we bought him out of a number of his shares. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:25 Guy Raz So, it's 2015, and Lily Sweets is now a solid, small business, and growing steadily. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:39 Cynthia Tice So, you know, I, I saw no succession plan for, for Lily's, even if I continued to try to grow it and build a team.
- ▶ 1:01:22 Cynthia Tice I mean, Lily's was a category disruptor, and it was growing beyond, you know, we, we, you know, it was, we hit the marketplace at the right time when there was this growing awareness of sugar, and that was the lucky part, and Lily's grew… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:03 Cynthia Tice Like, one of the things that was painful with the new team of Lily's was that, um, you know, I felt out of place with younger, you know, with, you know, everybody on the staff was like, 40 and below. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:49 Cynthia Tice I eat a bar of lilies a day.