Back to the Roots
includes Back To The Roots Water Garden
8 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 13, 2015 by Nikhil Arora · said 5 times in 2 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nikhil Arora (1), Alejandro "Alex" Velez (1)
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2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
2015 2 mentions in 1 episode
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May 13, 2015 positive
May 13, 2015 positive
Velez: Whole Foods was the only grocer to respond to early pitches
“We took that same bucket, walked it into every single grocery store in like a 50 mile radius from Andronico's, every Andronico's in Berkeley and Oakland. We went to Farmer Joe's. We went to Berkeley Bowl. At the time, there was only one Berkeley Bowl. We walke…”
May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 bullish
Velez: Back to the Roots products are in over 14,000 stores globally
“And these amazing products, which are ready to grow, ready to eat products, a mushroom farm, a water garden, a garden in a can, and now organic breakfast cereal and breakfast toppers that are now sold in over 14,000 grocery stores around the country, and Canad…”
May 13, 2015 positive
Whole Foods, Petco, and Nordstrom launched Water Garden nationwide together
“So we took that buzz and went back to Petco, went back to Whole Foods, went back to Nordstrom, and for the first time ever, those three retailers took this product on nationwide. So we had a national launch with Whole Foods, national launch with Petco, Nationa…”
May 13, 2015 bullish
Back to the Roots raised $500k in pre-orders before manufacturing Water Garden
“We had a 100,000 dollar goal, ended up doing 250,000 dollars in 30 days of pre-orders. We took that momentum, took it over to our website, another quarter million dollars. So this is half a million dollars of pre-orders without even creating the damn thing.”
May 13, 2015