Keller: An investor offered full funding in exchange for future control
Thomas Keller · Chef and Restaurateur: Thomas Keller · May 29, 2023 · at 42:44
Chef Thomas Keller describes his 18-month fundraising campaign in the early 1990s to purchase The French Laundry restaurant in Yountville, California.
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“There was one investor who offered to bankroll me all the way, and I was sitting in the garden at the French Laundry with him at the time, and he said, but I want control over everything that you're doing in your future.”
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