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In 2000, King was fired from her own bakery by her partners
“So I didn't go on my trip, and I waited, and one day I came to work, they were there, I walked into the office, and they handed me papers, saying that I was fired.”
King's partners drove her bakery $600K into debt before firing her
“They, at that point, had driven my business, 600,000 dollars into debt. I realized, even though I was fired and had no job, I was responsible for one-third of that debt, and all the money that the company had was gone.”
King started her first bakery with $5,000 savings and a family loan
“Yeah, I had 5000 or so that I saved before I rented, and I had to borrow some money, and of course I couldn't get it from the bank, so my brother lent me a little bit of money because I had to buy My chocolate chips was 2000 dollars”