Momofuku

“He was like, I did a bad thing and I need your help. Because if you know Dave, you know, like, and most of us that are in it is personal to us, so when someone comes in and, like, threatens to shut down your business, it's everything we've got that's in it, an…”

“He was like, do you want a job? And I was like, well, what would the job be? And he was like, I don't know. You figure it out.”

“He loaned me money through our, through the hold co of Momofuku, and it was, I was very well versed at operating on a shoestring budget, because that's how we built the Momofuku empire, and so, It was a loan that we agreed that I'd pay back”

“No one was setting it into a panna cotta, swirling it into a soft serve, or thinking about it, through that lens.”

“And I think at the same time, he knew he was building this amazing, magical thing in Momofuku, and that in order to continue to be taken seriously, he was going to have to take his restaurant empire seriously, and like it or not, that includes desserts.”