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"A Sh#tty Goal" - Ben & Jerry’s Founder CALLS OUT Founders Who Sell Their Companies

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen is calling out entrepreneurs who cash out and sell their companies, saying the money isn’t worth losing your mission. After years of clashes with corporate ownership, Cohen says watching Ben & Jerry’s progressive voice get silenced turned the dream into a fight to take the company back.

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0:00.0

Ben and Jerry's founder, Ben Cohen, whom I've had on, which, by the way, actually liked them.

0:03.7

I don't like his policies, but I liked them.

0:05.3

We had a good time together.

0:06.6

He says, selling your business is a shitty goal.

0:09.7

What does this mean?

0:11.2

So Ben Cohen said many founders wrongly treat selling their company as the ultimate goal,

0:15.9

arguing businesses should instead focus on long-term purpose, profitability, and shared values.

0:21.7

Cohen spoke while promoting the free Ben & Jerry's campaign,

0:24.7

which urged current owner Magnum Ice Cream Company to spin off the brand to investors,

0:29.6

willing to preserve its local mission, social mission.

0:32.9

The campaign has gathered more than 130,000 petition signatures,

0:38.6

and staged public protests including a

0:39.6

boycott magnum

0:40.6

demonstration

0:41.6

outside the company's

0:43.3

annual meeting

0:43.8

why activism

0:44.6

resonated with customers

0:45.7

Cohen argued Ben and Jerry

0:46.8

built unusually

0:47.8

strong customer loyalty

0:48.9

because it connected

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