Advice Line with Pete Maldonado of Chomps

Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Raz. So, over the next few months, we're gonna be taking your calls about the challenges you're facing, and hopefully we can help you get closer to solving them. And helping me out each week will be a past guest from this show, a legendary founder who is here to help new founders. Trying to build their own amazing businesses. And by the way, if you are building something and you need advice or help, Give us a call and you might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298, and we'll also put it in the podcast description. Alright, ready?

Let's go. Today, I'm so excited to be joined by Pete Maldonado. He's a co-founder and co-CEO of Chomps. The grass fed meat stick brand that is man, Pete, it's everywhere. I just bought a a multi-pack of the Mikosco last week, actually. Pete and his co-founder, Rashid Ali, joined me in January of 2023 to tell the story of turning their side hustle. into a national brand, Pete. Welcome back.

Thank you for having me. One of the things that I remember about uh about your appearance on the show is how you really work to learn how to be a better dealmaker, right? Which is which is a critical skill for any entrepreneur to learn. For sure. Yeah. I think you know, my my background it was uh a a number of different

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