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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Steve Barnard: Founder & CEO, Mission Produce | #ThePlaybook 398

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Steve Barnard, Founder and CEO of Mission Produce (NASDAQ: AVO), shares how he was able to work his way up through the agriculture industry, as well as some of the most valuable lessons he picked up from mentors along the way. Barnard and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about a variety of topics including the origins of Mission Produce, how to convince others to share your vision, and which life mottos every entrepreneur should try to follow. The pair also discuss treating business as a game that you love to win, and analyzing your competitors’ strengths and weaknesses in order to improve your own business. Tweet me @davidmeltzer your favorite takeaway from today's episode and come ask me questions live every Friday at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST. Text me at (949) 298-2905 or email me at david@dmeltzer.com to join!

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0:00.0

On this episode of the playbook, I have Steve Bernardz, president and CEO of Mission Produce,

0:06.1

Mission Avocados, and he is on a mission.

0:09.7

How can you make Avocados fun and make millions of dollars around the world?

0:16.0

Join me for all of this and more on the playbook.

0:19.8

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.

0:21.8

For each week, I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs

0:27.2

to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them champions

0:32.9

on the field and in the board.

0:35.8

I'm your host, David Meltzer.

0:37.8

I have another legend here on the playbook, Steve Bernardz, president and CEO of Mission

0:43.0

Produce.

0:44.0

Welcome to the playbook, Steve.

0:46.0

Thanks, David.

0:47.0

Pleasure to be here.

0:48.0

You know, so much fun doing this because I get to see industries that don't look like

0:53.2

they're very much fun.

0:54.2

You know, I'm looking and doing research about mission produce and I'm like, gosh, you

0:58.8

know, the agriculture business.

1:00.8

This must not really be very exciting compared to, you know, all these great technologies

1:06.0

out there.

1:07.0

And yet, you know, the heart of agriculture is very close to the Silicon Valley.

1:12.0

A lot of it is, you know, throughout the corridor there.

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