Building a High Growth Brand in CPG with Bryan Freeman
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Freeman led Real Good Foods from startup in 2017 to IPO in 2021 listing with a $300+ million market cap. Bryan has built and sold three other CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) brands to large publicly traded firms.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Stay curious and keep learning from others.
2. When investors see you're committed, they will invest.
3. Be very intentional, be constantly look for people with new ideas and experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Who's ready to rock today Fire Nation JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire |
| 0:07.6 | brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network with great shows like my first million today |
| 0:13.4 | we'll be talking about building a high growth brand in CPG to drop these value bombs. |
| 0:19.5 | I brought Brian Freeman into EO fire studios. |
| 0:23.1 | Brian led real good foods from start up in 2017 to IPO in 2021 listing with a 300 plus |
| 0:29.9 | million market cap. |
| 0:31.7 | Brian has built and sold three other CPG consumer packaged goods brands to large publicly traded |
| 0:39.0 | firms. |
| 0:40.0 | In today's Fire Nation we will be talking about how to get started in CPG with limited |
| 0:44.3 | resources, the right path to raising money. |
| 0:48.1 | We'll talk about how brands are being built differently today and so much more when |
| 0:51.6 | we get back from thinking hours sponsors. |
| 0:55.4 | Looking for a business coach who has helped thousands of entrepreneurs increase profitability |
| 0:59.0 | by an average of 104% annually all for less money than it would cost to hire one minimum |
| 1:04.1 | wage employee all on a month and month basis. |
| 1:07.1 | Schedule your free consultation today with Clay Clark a former SBA entrepreneur of the |
| 1:11.7 | year at thrivetime show dot com slash fire. |
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