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Chomps: Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali

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What was your purchase order for? One point one million sticks. And it was larger than the previous year altogether in a single PO. Wow. And I'm thinking, oh shit, like how this is like this is not what we discussed. This is way more than what what we had we discussed. And so I was like, give me a second. So I like I go in my room, I build my spreadsheet, I'm I'm calculating the total, like what does it actually look like? So I'm like

Pete we need. I don't know, it was like one point something million to be able to to fund this. And so we then had to figure out like how we were gonna get the money.

Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. Built. I'm Guy Raz and I'm on the show today. How two partners who set out to sell steak. Wound up making sausage in the form of chops.

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