Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens

April sixth. nineteen ninety. We had bankers and lawyers and uh VIPs, we had Minister of Agriculture was there. Yeah. And uh and other big wigs. And we could not get the

equipment to produce a single cornflake. Did you spend six million dollars. What do you mean you can't get it to produce cornflakes? Or any flakes or any flakes. It just you turn the machine on and it starts going Zh does it actually do that at least? And it wouldn't come out. It could not. It did not work.

Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. They built. Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Aaron and Ratna Steven sprouted their first organic grains in a bathtub. and grew that business into nature's path. A cereal and snack brand that's now sold in more than fifty countries around the world.

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