Nicholas Jammet

Co-Founder & Chief Concept Officer, Sweetgreen · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 2007, Jammet co-founded the fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen alongside Georgetown University classmates Jonathan Neman and Nathaniel Ru. As Chief Concept Officer, he oversees menu innovation, culinary strategy, and brand concept development as the company scales nationwide.

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Assertion Supported

All three Sweetgreen co-founders are children of immigrant entrepreneurs

“We were all kids of immigrants, kids that had come to this country, parents that had come to this country and built businesses. They were all entrepreneurs.”

Nicholas Jammet May 6, 2024 ▶ 1:48 Sweetgreen co-founders: From college friends to a $2.5 billion public company | Masters of Scale

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Insight

Public market scrutiny creates constructive focus for founders executing business plans

“Being a public company, you have that expectation of having to execute on what you've promised to the street. So it actually creates a bit of this constructive pressure for us to actually try to stay very focused on the business plan at hand.”

Nicholas Jammet May 6, 2024 ▶ 48:25 Sweetgreen co-founders: From college friends to a $2.5 billion public company | Masters of Scale

Assertion Partly supported

Salads are now one of Sweetgreen's smaller menu categories

“And so our menu has really broadened quite nicely over the last few years, and where salads used to be the only and majority category, today it's one of our smaller categories.”

Nicholas Jammet May 6, 2024 ▶ 1:00:18 Sweetgreen co-founders: From college friends to a $2.5 billion public company | Masters of Scale

Assertion Supported

All three Sweetgreen co-founders are children of immigrant entrepreneurs

“We were all kids of immigrants, kids that had come to this country, parents that had come to this country and built businesses. They were all entrepreneurs.”

Nicholas Jammet May 6, 2024 ▶ 1:48 Sweetgreen co-founders: From college friends to a $2.5 billion public company | Masters of Scale

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Neman called Sweetgreen's first landlord 30 consecutive days to secure a meeting

“I actually remember the landlord of our Georgetown, our first location, wouldn't even return our call. John called her 30 days in a row, every single day, so she finally took a meeting just to stop the calls.”

Nicholas Jammet May 6, 2024 ▶ 14:58 Sweetgreen co-founders: From college friends to a $2.5 billion public company | Masters of Scale

Assertion Supported

Sweetgreen scaled to 20 regional locations to build playbooks before national expansion

“We got to around 20 restaurants in DC, Virginia, Maryland. We'd gone to Philly, so a little further, really understanding what a second city feels like. And we made a bunch of mistakes on how you hire, how you operate remotely, how you build a second supply ch…”

Nicholas Jammet May 6, 2024 ▶ 34:27 Sweetgreen co-founders: From college friends to a $2.5 billion public company | Masters of Scale

Assertion Partly supported

All 40 Sweetgreen corporate team members relocated to Los Angeles in 2016

“And we had about 35, 40 people on the team at the time and they all moved with us.”

Nicholas Jammet May 6, 2024 ▶ 44:18 Sweetgreen co-founders: From college friends to a $2.5 billion public company | Masters of Scale

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Sweetgreen co-founders: From college friends to a $2.5 billion public company \| Masters of	May 6, 2024	9m

Nicholas Jammet

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