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Angie Bastian

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2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And Dan B Co founders of Boom Chick Boat to Angie and Dan Bastion at the Ordway Concert Hall in St. Paul, Minnesota. And by the way, that original kettle they bought in 2001, Angie and Dan no longer own it when ConAgra bought the company in 2017, they also acquired that old kettle. And Angie believes it is now sitting in the back of a very large storage facility somewhere in Minnesota”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you think, Dan, first to you, do you think that what you achieved in this business was the result of your work and your skill and your intelligence, or do you think that luck played a big part?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have done interviews with co-founders who were married before and are still married. In some cases, Melissa and Doug are still married. But then there have been examples. We had an episode recently, EO Products. They divorced. They kept the company going. You guys had a marriage, you had a family, you had a partnership, a lot of struggle. I mean, just being married and having kids, right? Anyone who's experiences that, there's stress, right? You argue, and that's normal, but running a business together on top of that and a business that for years and years is a grind and just you don't really know if it's working and the people calling you and they're stressed How did you survive? How did it survive?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, could you imagine when you ordered that kettle and it arrived in your garage and you were like mixing it and burning the corn, the popcorn, like, that you would go on, it would go on to be purchased for a quarter of a billion dollars, like 16 years later, could you?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not at all. First of all, I mean, the fact that you came into such a substantial amount of money has that substantially changed your lives? And so, how”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, you also, I know you are a brand ambassador and you are on contract with ConAgra. And Dan, are you involved with the company at all? I'm not.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fly by night kettlecorn kettle man now we're all thinking wish I saw that ad on Google with a popcorn popping in 2001 So they buy it out I mean, did you even have time to absorb what that meant? Were you just, I don't know.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In 2017 So 2017, ConAgra, a huge company that owns many brands, buys out your company reportedly for a quarter of a billion dollars. Astounding, a quarter of a billion dollars. Pop Yeah. And the brand I mean, talk about a great $8,000, $10,000 investment.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you remember how much money you were able to distribute? Millions of dollars well. And I mean, that can't probably doesn't happen very often in Mankato, right? Like a liquidity event. I'm not, I mean, right? No, it's not.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And take a pretty big stake in the company. And it's real money. And I think at that point you guys started to distribute money to people who had been with you and worked with you for a long time.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“After nine years of business. Wow. So I think around 2014, TPG growth comes in a bigger private equity firm. They buy out sharebrooks.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“2011, you decide to find somebody to help you with a new name. You go to a branding agency. And what names do they come up with?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And did you, I mean, this has also coincides with the gluten free explosion, right? Did you also were you also able to kind of ride that wave?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, what was the impetus to, because your kettle corn is your bread and butter, right? What is the impetus at that point to go to salted popcorn or buttered popcorn or other flavors? Was it them? Was it other people saying, hey, we want different flavors?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You guys get an outside investment firm, Sherbrook Capital. It's a BC firm, come in, make an offer. Did you feel at that time you needed to have that capital to grow in the way that you wanted to?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And when you did those meetings, when you went to Costco, how did you pitch them? Dan, would you have Angie kind of be the face of the product and make the pitch or did you make the pitch or did you guys kind of bounce off each other like you're doing now?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You were still basically supporting your family, right? Yes. Dan was not, you were not taking income from the company quite yet.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But Angie, you stayed on until 2010 working as a nurse. What was a turning point for you where you thought, okay, now I'm going to be in this full-time, I'm going to stop, you know.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you are starting to sell the, I mean, really, this is selling well at Trader Joe's. Do you remember what your revenue was in 2009?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When we come back in just a moment, how Angie and Dan did a complete rebrand of the business and why they rejected the name Boom Chick Pow Pow. Stay with us, I'm Guy Ros, and you're listening to how I built this. Hey, welcome back to how I built this. I'm Guy Raz. So it's around 2008, and things are looking up for Angie and Dan, because Trader Joe's has just ordered another twenty five truckloads of popcorn. But that also means the business has to scale up quickly and hire a lot more people.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But did, I mean, imagine there was probably a little bit of frustration, right? Because people would probably come up to you and say, oh, you guys are Angie's. I love your kettle corn. It's awesome. You guys are crushing it. It's so great. In the meantime, you're struggling financially”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because your kids are getting older and you guys are in your 40s at this point. And for a lot of people, that's kind of a turning point too. You start to think about, okay, in college and all these things. And was any part of you nervous about that”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it was around 2008, you had to get a loan to get a much bigger space, I think like a million dollar loan. And you went to a bunch of banks. And what did they say? Were they eager to lend you the money?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, Angie, how did you compartmentalize? You're dealing with patients who have serious mental issues, and then you're like...”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What I mean, like, was there ever a point in the first five or six years where you were thinking? What are we doing? I mean, we're in debt. We're working all the time.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean Like, okay. I mean, that's the question, right? You started this out to create college funds for your kids. And it sounds like for the first seven years, you just buried yourself further and further into debt. They were never going to go to college. On this plan, right?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When we come back, how Angie's kettlecorn eventually managed to get into Trader Joe's, even though it almost didn't, and how it eventually spread just about everywhere. I'm Guy Raz, stay with us. You're listening to how I built this from NPR. Hey, welcome back to How I Built This I'm Guy Raz. So it's the early 2000s and Dan and Angie have started to get their popcorn into a few local grocery stores in the Twin Cities. They are still doing most of the popping and bagging and delivering and barely making enough money to hire anyone. But then they find two people who seem to be willing to help out.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, was this a kind of a turning point where you started to get attention? Because I think within a year or so, a local supermarket chain in Minnesota approached you and said, hey, do you guys want to sell your popcorn here at our stores? Is that how it happened?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have to assume, I mean, your costs weren't that high, right? It's salt, sugar, some oil, and corn, right? Corn kern So you were probably making some money, but not too much money, like a little bit of money, or actually was it were you starting to be able to save for this college fund?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you are starting to sell in front, and so this is like football season. You're going there every weekend in front of the stadium, tailgators, not inside the stadium, right? Just in front. And were you, I mean, were you selling a lot of cattle? Were you doing”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So they came to you and they said, Hey, we have a great opportunity for you. You can be the official kettle corn of the Minnesota Vikings, but it's going to cost you a sponsorship fee.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And fans are going there to see the players train. So you start selling popcorn there. And I guess one of you has this idea. Let's send the players, the team, popcorn”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And when you asked, would they say, Yeah, you have to pay us a certain amount of money if you want to set it outside here, or it was.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, I think it was that summer of 2002 where you basically started to sell kettlecorn at the Minnesota Vikings training camp. So how did that happen? Did you just go there and set up, you asked them, I'm assuming if you could go and set up a tent? Or no, you didn't ask.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can. You can So you've got a license, you got a tent, you got a kettle, and what were you calling the company at that point?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but you were still teaching, you were still doing your. What would you see your students on the weekends, or would you see folks from the hospital?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so you start selling the popcorn the first time you set up a tent, you sell $300 for the popcorn. And are you bagging it in like Ziploc bags? No. Twist tie bags. Okay. And you're just hand scooping it and And sifting it popcorn is like an amazing, the difference in what you pay for the kernels and what you can sell the popcorn for, right, is it's a nice margin.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let me just step back for a sec. When you, Dan, I mean, your family is in Mankato, I guess your brothers, maybe around your parents. When you said, and they said, hey, what are you doing this weekend? You're like, I'm going to sell kettle corn in front of this supermarket under a tent. Was anybody like that? That's weird.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's basically a kit. So you could go and sell kettle corn. And just out of curiosity, could you, I mean, at that point, could you just set up the tent and sell it or did you need like a permit and all that stuff?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is like a total scam. I mean, right. How many scams have you seen? Thousands of dollars selling kettle corn, and you thought Eurek”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, so you're back in Mankato, and what is this idea for kettle corn even, how did that even happen? Like, you're going to your job, you are a nurse, you're working at the clinic, right? And you're teaching.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you would basically kind of start to think about hey, you know, what could a business be like? What could it look like? Idea started to kind of enter your mind.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, what do you mean by that? I mean, because you're the lead parent, right? You are at home, and Angie's working outside.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think a year later your daughter's born, 95. You guys moved to Santa Fe. For a brief period, and then you eventually move to Florida, your young couple and you've got a child and two kids. Two kids at that point. Oh, your son was born.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you start hanging out. Eventually, you guys become a couple. And I think within like two years of meeting, you got married, right?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In an entirely separate universe, Angie, you went off to study nursing and you end up in Santa Fe, right? Or in Gallup, New Mexico.”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And when you went, I think you studied history in college. And then you finished, when you finished college, was your idea to become a teacher?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And just for people who aren't familiar with Mennonite culture, what does that mean? Obviously, modesty. Did you, I don't know, watch TV and go to movies and do all those things as a kid?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You might know some people in this program. So, welcome. Thank you for being here. And Joan want to start with you, and then we'll obviously get to when the two of you met. You grew up in Indiana. You grew up. Think mainly on a farm in a Mennonite community. Can you tell us a little bit about your childhood and your upbringing?”
2022-02-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT