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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Wow. I have to imagine, I mean, did your dad talk about it? Because there were, there were many people who survived the camps, uh, That didn't talk. Today, the remaining survivors do talk about it, because they're encouraged to do so, but there are very few left. When you were a boy, did he talk about it?
A He did. And Guy, you're correct. There were a number of survivors in our community in Mexico City, and there were predominantly two types. One were the people that shut it out. They could not talk about it because it's too consuming and painful. And then there was the others who were so consumed that they were embittered and, and, and, uh, darkened. And my dad was neither. My dad was very rare in that he was Talked about it, and when he talked about it, it consumed them, but then he lived his life with kindness. He didn't let that darkness of that chapter darken him. Quite the opposite. He saw his new life as an opportunity for him to bring light to the world, and he always, even today, if you come to San Antonio, Texas, where we moved to after when I was 16 years old, people, when they see my last name, they say, oh, were you related to Mr. Roman Lubetzky? I'm like, yeah. It's like, oh my God, he was, and they'll tell you stories about it. How kind he was to them. Like everywhere you go, people still talk about him and you look back and it really did, uh, shape almost all of my decisions.
AI assessment note: “He did. And Guy, you're correct. There were a number of survivors”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q bar. And so let's talk about this for a sec, because this is gonna be a bar, right? And it had to be cut, and it was gonna have whole nuts in it, and it had to be bound together. And, uh, you know, I think a lot of people listening might think, okay, what's the big deal? But I think this is gonna be a challenge to actually produce.
A It's really, really hard, because in our industry, Most bars, I think, 95% of bars are what's called an emulsion or a paste, and it flows really easily to the manufacturing line. If you take a product, you macerate it and make a mix, it flows very well through the line. It's very easy to cut, it's very easy to look. When you're not doing that, when you're trying to preserve the wholeness of the almond, because the almonds are better preserved, they're not pulverized. If, if you cut them, they can oxidize, they can go rancid, they They lose some of their integrity. So you want to try to preserve the whole almond. And it's very hard to do that and do that at scale and do that through a manufacturing line. So it took us a very long time to develop the technology to protect nature.
AI assessment note: “It's really, really hard, because in our industry, Most bars, I think, 95% of bars”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q in the first year you sold about a million dollars worth of bars, which is great because that's what you were selling with the previous. Barb, and now it's your own brand. And do you remember, um, having, I mean, you probably had no budget to spend on marketing at all. Do you remember anything you did in that first year to get the word out about this, this product?
A It was worse than that. I had trained myself over 10 years to not waste money because I didn't have money to waste. But I had made the mistake to then turn the culture of my company into a scarcity mentality Rather than a resourceful mentality. So you don't want a glutinous, wasteful mentality, but you, if you have a scarcity mentality, then you're not investing. So the first few years, we're lucky that the product had the success of our packaging, our product, and those displays, but that was basically it. We didn't even have a sampling budget because really we saw sampling as a cost center rather than as an opportunity for people to score a product. Our budget as late as 2008 for sampling was 800 dollars, and that was 800 dollars including samples to the retailers.
AI assessment note: “we're lucky that the product had the success of our packaging, our product, and those displays”
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D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.55
Q Huh. What do you mean? What, what, how did they say that?
A The newspapers, people started saying that it was the Jews' fault. You know, you can't really fully explain anti-Semitism or all these, uh, things, so, uh, All I remember is that my father said, my grandfather made a mistake to not take the warning signs. I'm not going to take the risk. And so something that's very interesting, even with epigenetics, that there's a lot of studies about children of Holocaust survivors, we see the world differently. Like I, in my mind, twenty-four-seven, part of my brain that worries is hyperactive. About everything, and I worry about democracy, about rule of law, about humanity, about how to fight injustice, like, it's just in my DNA, and I think it has a lot to do with what my parents taught me, but also with what I inferred from learning from his experience.
AI assessment note: “The newspapers, people started saying that it was the Jews' fault.”
