Joel Clark sold his mother's pancake mix door-to-door at age eight
Joel Clark · Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark · Dec 7, 2020 · at 9:31
Joel Clark, co-founder of Kodiak Cakes, describes the original 1982 door-to-door neighborhood test that inspired the founding of Kodiak Cakes.
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“They totally did. I remember I knocked on it, so we lived in a cul-de-sac, and I went around to all the neighbors in the cul-de-sac, And I think everybody bought one, you know, I mean, I'm this eight year old kid. And I was actually pretty outgoing as a kid, like that didn't bother me at all. And so, you know, I remember doing that and then going around to some of the other neighbors outside of our street and I ended up selling all the bags that we had.”
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