Q And tell me, I, um, tell me how you, how you did this. I mean, you have a chocolate factory, there's machinery, it's expensive. This, you know, most people who start chocolate brands, they outsource it, and they just kind of sell the chocolate, right? They'll have the recipe. Tell me how you got into this.
A Long story, but keeping it short, I'm an entrepreneur. Mark, I sold Basketball cards when I was 10 years old, went to all the card shows, um, sold candy to kids on the bus, took their lunch money, don't feel great about it, but learned some moral, moral lessons, you know, mercenary versus missionary kind of stuff. Um, started two e-commerce companies in New York City, very small exits, took a little bit of time to get away from New York City and back to Oregon, my hometown, and growing up in a small conservative farming community, I Saw that, um, a lot of things have changed in the environment. I came back to an orange sky because of the wildfires here on the west coast. And I also had a, a little bit of a confrontation with factory farming of animals, and it didn't really sit right with me. Um, and I love chocolate. I have a sweet tooth. So I, um, set out, uh, to create the best vegan milk chocolate replacement. Uh, so it's not a compromise for people when they have the choice between our chocolate And a traditional milk chocolate that it's an easy switch for them. Um, and yeah, so kind of a big overreaction, but I had sold to e-commerce companies, uh, and put every single penny I had and then some into chomp.
AI assessment note: “put every single penny I had and then some into chomp.”