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Magic Spoon Co-Founder Shares Business Advice: 'Make Sure Up Front That People Want It'

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Business News, News, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.86 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Magic Spoon is a health focused cereal brand founded by Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz. Before pursing a cereal brand, the two launched Exo, a line of protein bars. The brand is committed to delivering gluten-free, high protein alternatives to your childhood favorite cereal. Magic Spoon co-founder Gabi Lewis sits down with Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Talks" to discuss growing his business, influencer marketing — plus advice he would give to entrepreneurs just starting out. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody I'm Brittany Lewis a reporter here at Forbes joining me now is Gabby

0:07.2

Lewis co-founder of Magic Spoon. Gabby thank you so much for joining me.

0:11.3

Thank you for having me.

0:13.0

Great to be here.

0:14.0

Before we dive right in, for those who don't know, can you explain what Magic Spoon is?

0:19.0

I can.

0:20.0

So Magic Spoon reimagined your favorite breakfast cereal with more protein less carbs and zero sugar

0:26.2

So imagine that delicious sugary boiled cereal you grew up loving and we made it legitimately healthy for you.

0:33.0

That sounds almost too good to be true,

0:36.0

but I want to know really how you did it

0:38.0

because sometimes when people think of healthier things

0:42.0

they want to try a healthier version of

0:43.9

x y or z they might take a bite and be like oh I can tell you know that's that's

0:49.2

healthy that's a healthy version of what I really want So when was the moment for you when you took a bite of

0:55.6

magic spoon cereal and you're like this is it we've got it? Yeah so the reason we even called it Magic Spoon was because we wanted you to feel this is too good to be true.

1:07.0

It must be magic. And so we spent over a year testing hundreds of formulations trying to basically recreate that

1:14.3

taste and texture of sugary cereal without the sugar without the gluten without the

1:18.4

grains and at first honestly we didn't even know if it was possible we thought

1:21.7

maybe the reason why this doesn't

1:23.2

exist is because from a food science perspective we just can't do it. But after

1:27.9

hundreds of recipes we eventually came up with a formula that uses a way protein, it uses a blend of natural

1:34.7

sweeteners like aluol smunk fruits, d'vili, and we use natural flavorings to come up with something

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