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Ben Conniff

Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Luke's Lobster · 2 appearances on the record.

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Ben Conniff co-founded Luke's Lobster in 2009 after responding to Luke Holden's Craigslist ad, helping scale the concept into an international restaurant chain, retail seafood brand, and certified B Corp. A former freelance culinary writer for outlets including GQ and Saveur, he also co-authored the cookbook Real Maine Food.

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3 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ben argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Ben Conniff: Right whale entanglements are not happening in Maine waters
“All the data and evidence shows that any issues with right whales are not, really not happening in Maine waters based on their migratory patterns and where their food is”
Ben Conniff Sep 3, 2020 ▶ 17:04 How I Built Resilience: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff of Luke's Lobster

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Everything Ben Conniff said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Ben Conniff: Right whale entanglements are not happening in Maine waters
“All the data and evidence shows that any issues with right whales are not, really not happening in Maine waters based on their migratory patterns and where their food is”
Ben Conniff Sep 3, 2020 ▶ 17:04 How I Built Resilience: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff of Luke's Lobster
Opinion
Ben Conniff: Seafood certification bodies lack specificity when evaluating individual fisheries
“A lot of these certification bodies, they just aren't specific enough in looking at what fishery you're talking about and what issues are or aren't posed by that fishery”
Ben Conniff Sep 3, 2020 ▶ 17:32 How I Built Resilience: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff of Luke's Lobster
Disclosure
Whole Foods approached Luke's Lobster to absorb surplus restaurant inventory
“They were actually eager to help us move more seafood, and they came to us and asked how they could actually buy more lobster, and how they could, you know, put inventory we would have sent to our restaurants into their seafood case, or into an innovative prod…”
Ben Conniff Sep 3, 2020 ▶ 7:23 How I Built Resilience: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff of Luke's Lobster
Disclosure
Luke's Lobster started selling scallops to support their lobster fishermen
“I mean, in, in some ways, like for the example of this spring, we started selling Debo's scallops. We'd never sold them before, but the guys that catch our lobster at that time of year, Also go out and catch scallops, and they didn't have a home for a lot of t…”
Ben Conniff Sep 3, 2020 ▶ 14:50 How I Built Resilience: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff of Luke's Lobster
Disclosure
Founders Reinvested All Earnings From First Six Locations Into Processing Plant
“We're going to take every penny of earnings that we've accumulated from six plus locations over a couple of years. We're going to put that next to some debt that we're going to raise, and we're going to push all of those chips in on an extremely difficult to m…”
Ben Conniff Nov 7, 2019 ▶ 38:07 Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Luke's Lobster Sold 500 Lobster Rolls on Opening Day
“It was 500. The first day.”
Ben Conniff Nov 7, 2019 ▶ 26:21 Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ben Conniff Got Zero Restaurant Job Interviews After Graduating From Yale
“I didn't get interviews.”
Ben Conniff Nov 7, 2019 ▶ 8:38 Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff

The other half of the tape: Ben Conniff's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 3 episodes on How I Built This. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How I Built Resilience: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff of Luke's Lobster Sep 3, 2020 7m
Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff Nov 7, 2019 11m
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