Richard Montanez - Creator of "Hot Cheetos"!
The Passionate Few
OMAR ELATTAR
4.9 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2017
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
"The Hot Cheetos Story!" - Ever wonder about the story of how Flamin Hot Cheetos was created by a janitor? We'll you're in luck!
On this episode, we sit-down & hear the incredible true story of Richard Montanez, a former janitor at Frito-Lay who took destiny into his own hands when he decided to pitch the CEO of the company on his crazy idea!
It's an amazing story told by the man himself, and it was a privilege to have Mr. Montanez share it with all of us! He turned down Oprah, but he gave me a shot & for that I'm truly grateful.
His story is amazing, inspiring & pure example of the unlimited possibilities we all possess as intelligent human beings!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Richard Montaignez, creator of Hot Cheetos, and one of the passionate few. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey guys, welcome to this week's episode of The Passionate View. It's your host, Omar, here. And today I'm going to be sitting down and interviewing the creator of Hot Chitos himself, Mr. Richard Montanieres. It was a real privilege to be able to sit down with Mr. Montanier's and talk about how he went from being a fourth grade dropout to ultimately go on and get a job at Fridoli at 18 years old as a janitor and would then pursue his dream and vision that nobody understood but he, when he called the CEO Fridoulay and pitched him on the idea of Flamen Hot Cheetos. |
| 0:36.3 | We get into the entire story so you guys won't want to miss a beat, and I hope you guys really enjoy it. You're inspired by it and see that Mr. Montanierrez is a true example of how to take your vision and make it a reality. Also, we want to give a very special shout-out to our sponsor, Mr. Hyitham al-Sharif, with a Southern California businessman |
| 0:54.7 | who believes in the message of the story and just wanted to sponsor the production costs |
| 0:58.9 | in order for us to get this message out there. He's a journeyman on his own path to fulfillment |
| 1:03.4 | and impacting, inspiring, and uplifting others. And we put all of his contact information, |
| 1:08.5 | his social links in the description so you guys can be sure to |
| 1:11.3 | connect with him there and thank him for sponsoring this episode as he's become a good, good friend of |
| 1:15.7 | mine and he's doing amazing things in the world. So special shout out to Hythel Mal Sharif for allowing |
| 1:20.7 | and supporting this message to reach as many people as humanly possible. So with no further ado, |
| 1:25.6 | I hope you guys enjoy my interview today with the man who turned |
| 1:28.1 | down Oprah's interview request, but agreed to sit down with myself and share his story with all of us |
| 1:33.1 | here at the Passion Review, none other than one of the highest ranking executives in North America. |
| 1:38.4 | And now, my dear friend and founder of Hot Chitos, the man, the myth, the legend himself, |
| 1:46.3 | Mr. Richard Montanyes. |
| 1:47.2 | Enjoy. |
| 1:50.1 | So, Mr. Montanyes, thank you for being on the show today. |
| 1:51.6 | That's a pleasure. |
| 2:03.2 | So first question I got to ask you, what's it like to go from being a janitor with no necessarily formal education to being the founder of one of the most viable hyped products on the planet as hot Cheetos free to late what's that feel like well i can tell you |
| 2:09.1 | that it's it's an incredible feeling it's really hard to explain but it's also a difficult one |
| 2:17.3 | because you have to understand you you know, being a janitor |
| 2:20.8 | without an education, I really didn't have any business mentors. So there was times where I made |
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