Sam Calagione
9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 1, 2022 by Mariah Calagione · said 4 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Guy Raz (3), Ray Ricky Rivera (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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Aug 1, 2022 negative
Strict work-life balance is impossible for married founders, says Mariah Calagione
“There isn't a work-life balance, because there's no, like, demarcation between work and not work, really. I mean, we go out to dinner at night where it's at an account. Like, we go to somewhere on the weekend, like, pretty much everywhere sells beer, right? So…”
Aug 1, 2022 neutral
Dogfish Head launched with $220,000 in personal loans to retain equity
“Yep, yep, it cost 220,000, yeah. And it was really, I did it, I structured it as personal loans out of the gate, so it wasn't that initially that, you know, they had equity in the company, so that also helped Mariah and I Keep control of the company as we're g…”
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Dogfish Head drove early press via impromptu newsroom happy hours
“I would drop off two pallets at a distributor in New York or Philly, but then take a bucket of beers to Art Forum Magazine, or Interview, or Food & Wine, or, and, you know, usually people would let us in their door for, say, hey, we want to throw a, we want to…”
Aug 1, 2022
A major beer conglomerate pressured Discovery to cancel Dogfish Head's show
“And then, like, within two weeks, the executives at the network are saying, oh, a major beer brand is pulling their advertising, unless we stop running your show, and to Anthony Bourdain's credit, he jumped on his own social, and Let people know.”
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Dogfish Head differentiated its brand by strictly banning cover bands
“The Holy Trinity was original beer, original food, original music. We also refused to have any cover artists, which, you know, 93% of the bands that played back then were Jimmy Buffett cover bands. So we were, like, finding all these indie rock bands from acro…”
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Brewing 12-gallon batches allowed Dogfish Head to live-test with customers
“The fact that we couldn't afford a full-scale, you know, commercial brewing system, and Had to start with tiny little pots and pans, you know, making 12 gallons of beer in the corner of our restaurant. It was actually a blessing in disguise, because I would br…”
Aug 1, 2022 negative
Calagione: 1990s American beer market was dominated by generic light lagers
“There's all these super cool, very unique, very vibrant different beers around the world, but you can't really find them in America, and America's dominated by these samey, you know, monolithic, generic, frankly, in my view, light lagers made by giant companie…”
Aug 1, 2022