Ben and Jerry's Part Two

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

Audacy

Self-improvement, Business, Investing, Education

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream join the show this weekend to talk about the role businesses play in social activism. Also hear how the duo, who met in 7th grade gym class, went on to create the iconic company with no business or ice cream making experience 42 year ago. Have a money question? Email me here. Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why are you listening to this podcast?
0:02.0	When there are puddles to be jumped in?
0:05.0	Come on, let's get outside and take on autumn.
0:09.0	All we need is a pair of valleys in the in the pot of pet tea for lo!
0:14.0	It's made with calcium and put him in de for immune support.
0:18.6	My mom says healthy mischief needs healthy bones. And she knows best. Healthy mistle
0:24.9	needs healthy bones and she knows best most of the time.
0:26.7	Take on autumn with Patty for loam.
0:45.7	Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. It is Sunday, September 27th. And we are airing the second part of our interview with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. Yes, Ben and Jerry.
0:48.0	We start this part of the interview with a comment about the Business Roundtable announcement from last year.
0:55.5	Now Business Roundtable, a bunch of business leaders that get together and they made a statement
1:02.2	last year where they said,
1:03.4	okay, we're no longer just going to put the shareholders first.
1:07.2	Now we actually care about the community and other stakeholders
1:11.2	and employees and customers in addition to
1:14.1	shareholders. So we start the second part of this interview with Ben and
1:17.6	Jerry with them commenting on what they think about the Business Roundtable
1:21.7	announcement from last year and then we'll get
1:23.6	into some more fun stuff as well.
1:25.2	Okay, part two, Ben and Jerry.
1:28.0	Isn't shareholder supremacy still the dominant force in corporate America?
1:32.0	I mean you guys didn't necessarily have to be part of that
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