INTERVIEW: Ron Shaich - Know What Matters
The 10 Minute Entrepreneur
Sean Castrina
4.8 • 308 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Ron is the founder and former Chairman & CEO of Panera Bread and author of "Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations" (Harvard Business Review Press, Oct. 24, 2023)
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the 10 Minute Entrepreneur podcast with host, Sean Castrina. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's going to be a great podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I have the founder and former CEO of Narra Bread. |
| 0:17.8 | I have one of the lead investors in chairman of Kava, which is now public company. |
| 0:23.2 | It's great to have you on the podcast, Ron. |
| 0:25.9 | Good to speak, Sean. |
| 0:26.9 | How are you doing? |
| 0:27.9 | It's been great. |
| 0:28.9 | It's Ron Shake. |
| 0:29.9 | If anybody is wondering what that last name is, I want to get that in there as well. |
| 0:33.4 | I just had to get through the long bio and make sure I get all these things, everything |
| 0:37.6 | correct. |
| 0:38.6 | Obviously. |
| 0:39.6 | Sean, that was 37 years you went through in 10 seconds. |
| 0:43.5 | And I didn't want to screw it up because we know little titles here and there can really |
| 0:49.1 | some people can let's do, I don't know if that's accurate, but I ate a Panera Bread last |
| 0:54.2 | week. |
| 0:55.2 | I had it delivered. |
| 0:56.2 | So Panera was the one to jump off the page to me, but Kava is also huge. |
| 1:01.4 | So we're going to get into, you know, obviously some of that stuff in this incredible book |
| 1:06.2 | that you just wrote called Know What Matters Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations. |
| 1:11.4 | But first, I like to start with, when did you know you were an entrepreneur? |
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