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Berkowitz: Insomnia Cookies raised capital every year from 2003 to 2011
“Which, by the way, I did from 2003 to 2011. So, like, it was every year for eight years, I was just raising capital.”
Berkowitz: Insomnia cut staff to three and halted salary for 18 months
“And so I ended up cutting my team down to myself. And a finance associate, and we had kind of a field operator who drove around, and I stopped paying myself for 18 months.”
Berkowitz: Rapid Scaling to 150 Stores Caused Delivery and Innovation to Slip
“Something happened internally, I don't even remember exactly what it was, where I just felt like we had had this huge growth story, you know, 20 stores, 150 locations, so rapidly, and we didn't hit a wall, but I could see something was breaking. Like, it was, …”