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Food52: Amanda Hesser

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Did you guys get to the point where you were almost out of cash? Yeah. You know, that was that was tough. Yeah. We had a moment um at Roberta's Pizzeria. Um I love Roberta's. Yeah, we cried over pizza and but really good pizza. And you know, we needed to have a conversation of like, where is our breaking point because it felt like we just it wasn't that we had no traction, we definitely had people interested, but we just couldn't get that lead. And then I actually like

Often with Things that are bad memories. I I sort of shoved them into a drawer somewhere in my brain. Sure. And I don't know, maybe it was a good pizza that we were just like, Yes, we're gonna keep going.

Rom and PR is how I built this. show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. Build. I'm Guy Raz and on the show today how Amanda Hesser walked away from one of the most coveted jobs in journalism. to build a digital media company for recipes and kitchen gear?

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