Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz

All these numbers seemed to be. Crazy and huge, right? The amount of money we're raising from investors, that was more money than we'd ever really thought about in our lives. Yeah. In terms of revenue. The first million dollars or so was faster and easier than anybody would have predicted for a company selling cricket bars. But getting bigger than that, that was really hard to convince. Mainstream America to eat. Bucks?

was much harder than we thought. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. They built. I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two college friends set out to sell snack bars made of bugs. And then pivoted to something that was easier and harder at the same time.

A sugary breakfast cereal. Without the sugar. Over the past 30 years or so, the story of natural and organic foods went something like this. There was a product that everyone ate. And smart entrepreneurs simply made an exact copy of it, but just

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