Peter Rahal
20 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 13, 2018 by Peter Rahal · said 12 times in 8 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2021 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 3 mentions in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
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Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018 neutral
Aug 13, 2018
Rahal: Small-batch manufacturing enables CPG startups to bootstrap effectively
“The advantages to manufacturing and doing it in small batch is you keep your inventory really low. And so that's where your cash ultimately lays, and so we didn't really need to raise a lot of money because we, Made a hundred bars, and then went online and sol…”
Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018 neutral
Aug 13, 2018 neutral
Aug 13, 2018
Rahal: RXBAR preferred remote CrossFit gyms over local Chicago grocery store shelves
“We rather have a CrossFit customer in California than a local Chicago independent grocery store. Just because in the grocery store, we're among the sea of competition. We had no awareness. The product didn't really make sense for everyone. Whereas in a CrossFi…”
Aug 13, 2018 positive
Aug 13, 2018 negative
Aug 13, 2018
Rahal: Discarding bad inventory dropped RXBAR's monthly sales from $500K to $120K
“300,000 dollars, 400,000 dollars. And I think about, so, in May, we did like 500,000 dollars in sales. By the end of that, like, process, because we were out of stock for two to three months, while we, like, found a new partner. We, then by, like, August, we d…”
Aug 13, 2018 negative
Aug 13, 2018
Rahal: RXBAR negotiated the rxbar.com domain purchase from $10,000 to $1,000
“Some, you know, cyber squatter had the domain. And he wanted 10,000 for it. And I was like, fuck. Jared's like, well, let's offer a thousand. I was like, alright, let's just do it. He offered a thousand, he gave it to us.”
Aug 13, 2018 positive
Mar 6, 2025 positive
Guy Raz: RXBAR's front-of-pack ingredient transparency transformed the company
“That rebranding on RX bar transformed that company because initially it didn't look like that. It didn't say, you know, four egg whites, three dates, two cashews. But once they did that and Peter Rahal talked about this on our show years ago. It just transform…”
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Rahal: Packaging design must assume consumers are 'stupid and lazy'
“One of my sort of design principles, it's a bit crude, but I think it's a very good approach to packaging design, is like, the consumers are stupid and lazy. Stupid in the sense that they don't really care that much, The brand is supposed to make it easy for t…”
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Rahal: Unmatched cultural tones in branding create confusion, not healthy tension
“Cheeky is like English humor, right? ... But, so then, but badass is like American. So I find those two things are at odds. Like, yeah, good brands have great tension, but I don't think those tensions really work. They're more confusing.”