Start to Sale Ep. 4: Ari Weinzweig of Anarchist Food Empire Zingerman's

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Erin and Natasha talk to Ari Weinzweig about Zingerman's unique model, how he fights the pressure to conform, and why vision is integral to the survival of a business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Support for this podcast and the following message come from Smart Water.
0:04.0	Not satisfied being like other brands. Smart Water looked up to the clouds and said,
0:09.0	I wonder if we can one up Mother Nature for a pure crisper water.
0:12.0	And guess what? They did. Smart water.
0:14.7	Vapor distilled for purity, electrolytes for taste.
0:17.5	Welcome to the Eater Upsel, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. This is actually a special bonus episode. It is not the upsell.
0:25.0	Can we just, okay, bonus, let me, let's be honest with the audience here.
0:30.0	Say what it is? This is an episode of Start to Sale. It's not bonus. Like we had this thing but we really think you should listen to it.
0:36.5	You're right. Okay, it's not a bonus. No, it's from our other show Start to Sale and this is a food related
0:41.0	episode and we think it's really great.
0:43.0	It's about Zingerman's.
0:45.4	What is Zingerman's?
0:46.8	Zingerman's is a group of businesses in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
0:50.5	It started as a deli, but now it's like 20 different businesses. They have most of them around
0:55.1	They built lots of bonus businesses. They built bonus businesses. It's mostly around hospitality but they also have some non hospitality things like this really famous
1:05.7	training program where they basically teach you how to be a better business person
1:09.9	But the guy who runs it, he co-founded it,
1:13.6	Ari Winesweig is super inspirational.
1:15.8	He's an anarchist.
1:17.2	He's incredibly intellectual.
1:20.1	A lot of the businesses built on anarchist theory.
1:23.6	He's unlike any other business person I've ever heard
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox Media Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vox Media Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.