Ratana Stephens

Co-Founder & Board Member, Nature's Path · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ratana Stephens co-founded Nature's Path Foods in 1985 with her husband Arran, serving as CEO and COO. She helped build North America's largest independent certified-organic breakfast and snack food company before stepping down from day-to-day operations in 2023.

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2 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names 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.

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arran Stephens sold one-third of Lifestream for $33,000
“For 33,000 dollars, Aaron gave away one-third of the business.”
Ratana Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 28:15 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
Disclosure
Ratana Stephens demanded Nature's Path take zero outside partners
“That he will not have another partner. It will be family business. We will be the partners, and he will not interfere what I will be doing.”
Ratana Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 52:17 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
Assertion Partly supported
Nature's Path grew to over 800 direct employees
“Over, over 800.”
Ratana Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 1:13:59 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens

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Statements about Ratana Stephens, by other people (1)

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arran and Ratana Stephens married through an arrangement before dating
“Yeah, we actually ended up getting married without dating Without living together, but it felt perfectly fine. It felt this was the way it really was meant to be. We got married and fell in love in that order.”
Arran Stephens May 23, 2022 ▶ 14:57 Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens May 23, 2022 8m
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