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VMG Partners Kept Investment Terms Unchanged Despite Nationwide Product Recall
“Yeah you know, and said we have a little issue going on, and they did not, to their credit, they did not penalize. Their offer at all.”
VMG Partners Invested $15 Million Including $10 Million Founder Secondary
“So they invested fifteen million, and we put five million in the bank and took ten million off the table.”
Perfect Bar Recipe Originated to Mask Beef Organ Powders for Kids
“They were whole food powder concentrates, so all like beef spleen powder, beef liver powder, All dehydrated concentrates pressed into a tablet, and us kids didn't know how to swallow those big tablets, and of course they tasted really gross to chew, and so he …”
Founders Spent $65,000 Cash on an eBay Candy Wrapper Machine
“We spent 65,000 cash on a candy wrapper machine off of eBay, and it's arriving on a truck.”
Perfect Snacks Generated $600 Per Store Visit Through Weekly In-Store Demos
“We could sell 400 dollars in a three-hour demo, and then leave behind a couple hundred dollars. So you're generating 600 dollars to make that store stop, and you're doing that weekly.”
Perfect Snacks Made $12,000 to $40,000 Per Four-Day Costco Roadshow
“Where a Costco, you could walk in, and we would commit to a four-day road show Thursday through Sunday, and you'd set up your 10 by 10 booth, And we could move anywhere from a really slow moving Costco, you know, 12,000 dollars in revenue in those four days to…”
Perfect Snacks Scaled Production From Seven Million to 20 Million Bars
“The last year we made product with rolling pins. We produced seven million bars, and we were then able to convert to these small pieces of equipment, and we were able to scale that little 5000 square foot kitchen to produce twenty million bars the last year we…”
Perfect Snacks Packaging and Branding Overhaul Drove 40 Percent Sales Lift
“Oh, at least a 40% lift.”
Mondelēz Acquired Remaining Stake in Perfect Snacks in Early 2023
“Q one of 2023, they purchased the rest of the business and Bill had exited out and I've continued on with the business for the last two years.”
Founders Lived in Abandoned Windowless Pizza Restaurant for a Year
“I was 14, Bill was 17 had no windows, still had the old pizzas moldy in the oven, and we cleaned that place up and slept in the booths where people used to dine, and that was home for a year.”