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Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg (2017)
- ▶ 8:56 Guy Raz And, and around this time you also meet Sam Kamen, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:57 Gary Hirshberg Well, right about that time, Ronald Reagan came into office and, uh, essentially cut off the lifeline for sustainable energy research, sustainable ag, so essentially money dried up for these non-profits, and so we would sit at Samuel's… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:47 Gary Hirshberg Cabin, ah, with, um, no plumbing, and I put solar cells on it, and, and the Cayman family lives there, and, and our interns are there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:59 Gary Hirshberg So Samuel said, great. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:30 Guy Raz Okay, so you go out and you start raising money, and, and did you and, and, and Samuel sit down and say, okay, how are we gonna, uh, structure this business, like, I, I, we are co-owners, this is a, uh, joint venture, like, how did you,… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:19 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Gary and Samuel begged and borrowed to keep Stonyfield going, and how they almost lost it anyway, again and again and again.
- ▶ 22:49 Guy Raz So, in the summer of 1984, Gary and Samuel and Stonyfield are almost broke.
- ▶ 25:10 Guy Raz And Samuel had six kids. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:10 Gary Hirshberg Um, one night, in this same era, Samuel was out milking. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:25 Gary Hirshberg That weekend, Samuel and I put on our carpenter's aprons, went out and kicked the roosters out and restarted the old yogurt factory. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:34 Gary Hirshberg Samuel and I would focus on sales and marketing, and we would, uh, become partners, and they would, uh, get paid a price for every cup of yogurt, and just like the other dairy, but this was a much larger, seventy million dollar company. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:57 Gary Hirshberg And so I turned to Samuel and I said, listen, Samuel, just for the fun of it, what would be the cheapest yogurt plant we could build? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:01 Guy Raz And did you, both you and Samuel, have to give up big chunks of your ownership? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:30 Gary Hirshberg And Samuel also was ready to retire. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:21 Gary Hirshberg I was lucky to meet Samuel. 2 times in the scene
Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg
- ▶ 7:46 Guy Raz And, and around this time, you also meet Sam Kamen, right? 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:09 Gary Hirshberg Sammy used the money to buy six more cows. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:20 Guy Raz Okay, so you go out and you start raising money, and, and did you and, and, and Samuel sit down and say, okay, how are we gonna, uh, structure this business, like, I, we are co-owners, this is a, uh, joint venture, like, how did you, did… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:09 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Gary and Samuel begged and borrowed to keep Stonyfield going, and how they almost lost it anyway, again and again and again.
- ▶ 21:41 Guy Raz So in the summer of 1984, Gary and Samuel and Stonyfield are almost broke. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:01 Gary Hirshberg Um, one night, in this same era, Samuel was out milking. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:16 Gary Hirshberg That weekend Samuel and I put on our carpenter's aprons, went out and kicked the roosters out and restarted the old yogurt factory. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:25 Gary Hirshberg Samuel and I would focus on sales and marketing, and we would, uh, become partners, and they would, uh, get paid a price for every cup of yogurt, and just like the other dairy, but this was a much larger, seventy million dollar company. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:52 Guy Raz And did you, both you and Samuel, have to give up big chunks of your ownership? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:21 Gary Hirshberg And Samuel also was ready to retire.
- ▶ 50:12 Gary Hirshberg I was lucky to meet Samuel. 2 times in the scene