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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q Um, in terms of school, how, how was it for you? Was it hard? Was it easy? Were you a good student? Not a good student?
A School was really tough. Um, I had several learning disabilities, from attention deficit disorder to form of Dyslexia, and as I got into high school, they diagnosed me, and by diagnosing me, they put me in what we used to refer to as romper room, which was, uh, half the day in normal classes, and half the day in, basically, it was special ed. It was a room with me and other kids who, uh, many of which had, had, had more complicated issues than I had. You know, I knew I was very late in reading, and, you know, math was really hard for me, And I had a clear goal, and that goal was to get C's and, uh, you know, or get as close to passing as possible.
AI assessment note: “School was really tough. Um, I had several learning disabilities”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q And when you got there, what did you do?
A Uh, we hung out a couple days in Sao Paulo, hung out with her and her friends and her family, but while I was there, I mean, you know, he was talking about staying, and he was talking about, you know, different business opportunities. I remember he was looking at Leather from the Northeast making women's shoes, which was, you know, becoming a business for export in Brazil at the time. And he was talking about coconut water. And in Brazil at the time, coconut water was, I think within, you know, maybe a year or so prior to my visit, they'd started selling coconut water in a Tetra Pak and shelf stable. So it was in grocery stores. Now it wasn't only on the beach and it was becoming incredibly popular in people's refrigerators. All over the country, not just on the beach in Rio. And he showed it to me. He took me to a couple grocery stores. We talked about it. He was in the early stages of developing what was somewhat of a business plan.
AI assessment note: “we hung out a couple days in Sao Paulo, hung out with her and her friends”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q By the way, when you tried coconut water, Were you blown away by it? Were you like, Oh my God, this is amazing. Or did you have a, did you have a less excited reaction?
A So I had tried it over the years, right? I'd been to the tropics a bit. I had tried coconut water, but the first time I tried it in a package without, you know, my feet in the sand and the whole bit, I wasn't, you know, I wasn't blown away. But when I started to see that it was outselling You know, Gatorade and every sport drink in the grocery store in Brazil, I thought maybe there's a business here. And again, it wasn't about creating a big business. We never set out to create a big consumer goods business. It was, you know, let's see if we can make a little bit of money, you know, never expected it to go further than, you know, New York City.
AI assessment note: “the first time I tried it in a package... I wasn't blown away.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Meantime, you're kind of grinding away trying to get your stuff on shelves. When you would go into stores that were not familiar with coconut water, and you tried to convince them to carry it, was that easy? I mean, did anybody say, I don't, I don't like the taste of this?
A Yeah, all the time. I would go in on my rollerblades, because I could, I could hit, I don't know, 50 stores in a day on my rollerblades, whereas if I was, you know, walking, it'd be a lot less, and I would go in and show it to, you know, the store manager, whatever it was, and half the time I'd get kicked out. Sometimes they would find it interesting, they would say, send me some, but find out later they weren't going to actually take it, and then other times people were just like, no way this is ever going to work. I remember one of the early stores I went into, I rollerbladed in there, and Found the store manager, and, uh, first he's laughing at me because I'm on rollerblades, and I'm a sales guy, you know, without a polo shirt and a briefcase, and, uh, he takes a sip, and he said, this is never gonna work. Tastes like sock water, is what he said. And, and I said, I promise you, I said, give me a chance. I said, take two cases, Put it in the store, and if it doesn't work, I'll buy it back from you. And he did, and pretty quickly it started working really well in his store, and he was one of the early, real early success stores.
AI assessment note: “Yeah, all the time. I would go in on my rollerblades”
