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I left that morning for the office knowing that's the day, and I was sitting in the office waiting, and my partner was on the phone, talking to the lawyers,

and we'd gotten the eyes and the cross and the tees on the contract.

So in that day, you're about to go and sign your name on the contract that very day.

Yeah, within an hour, we were ready to get in the car and go over.

And I said I got to take a walk around the block, and so I did. I went out to the parking lot, and I just started weeping.

You didn't want to do it?

I didn't want to do it.

From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Ross, and on the show today, how Gary Erickson used his mom's recipe and his dad's first name to create Cliffbar.

One of the most popular energy bars in the country.

So back in the 1980s, an energy bar was something you just kind of shoved on your throat before running a marathon or going skiing.

And that was about it. There wasn't like a whole aisle of Lara and Luna and Chia bars in the supermarket, and they weren't in the bottom of our backpacks or in the glove compartment of our cars.

And around that time, the late 1980s, Gary Erickson was living in the Bay Area.

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