Turning Authentic Flavor Into a Growth Model
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. I'm David Meltzer and I am super stoked because my boy, |
| 0:05.1 | Romant Thomas, is here. He's the CEO of what I believe to be the next best place to get your pasta. |
| 0:13.3 | That's right. CEO at Want Italy pasta and Go Romant. Welcome to the playbook. |
| 0:21.5 | Welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:24.4 | Well, you were the star of GoFund Yourself, my number one show on Cheddar. |
| 0:29.2 | And it's very rarely that I meet an entrepreneur who's raising money, |
| 0:33.2 | looking for strategic partners to invest as well, that blows me away. |
| 0:38.6 | And what blew me away beyond being a great jockey of the horse, |
| 0:44.3 | it's the horse itself sits in a very crowded space, |
| 0:48.5 | but is so unique in its business model and delivery. |
| 0:52.1 | And you proved it by actually bringing the pasta on set in conditions |
| 0:59.5 | that are not aligned with the true conditions of your store there at the World Trade Center. |
| 1:07.5 | Let's talk about it. |
| 1:08.7 | And I just start with a great testimonial. |
| 1:10.9 | Every one of the Titans on GoFund yourself love the pasta. |
| 1:15.5 | They all finished it. |
| 1:16.8 | They all asked for more. |
| 1:17.9 | And when I found out that it was 20 minutes earlier that you had it done and you had to wait |
| 1:24.8 | to get on set and obviously not the same circumstances. |
| 1:28.6 | And it still tastes at some of my places better. |
| 1:32.3 | I will tell you this honestly, your pasta tastes better than the pasta. |
| 1:35.7 | And Roy Kataya, the CEO of Verb, who's also a Titan and executive producer of the show, |
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