Ben Bailey invested $700,000 of his personal funds into Chomp Chocolate
Ben Bailey · Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Marc Lore · Dec 26, 2024 · at 9:55
Ben Bailey, founder of Chomp Chocolate, explains the startup capital required to build out his bean-to-bar chocolate factory in Oregon to Guy Raz and Marc Lore.
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“So I put 700,000 dollars in is everything I had and that got us open.”
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