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Cameron Healy

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“Yeah, I think very much both. I think you can't be overtly risk averse if you're an entrepreneur. You have to be able to live with ambiguity and live with stress. Also at the core is having great teams of people. They're the ones that really executed and made these various companies work. And yeah, it's the people that, you know, I was able to be the visionary and direct into opportunities, but it's really so many great people that heart and soul, they committed themselves. To make that happen.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm turning 75 this week and looking at it more than a year ago is that I didn't want to have to worry about managing a foundation through my 80s, but also preparing it for the future when I was gone. I just decided that's. That's too much. And, but yeah, it's been a whole game changer. It's kind of turbocharged our organization. We were given the award last year of the outstanding Foundation in Hawaii, which was nice to have that recognition. That's awesome.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I didn't, you know, Tim and I were given a small incentive to be advisors for a year, but we both set in on the first conference call with the operator that Lang Capital had brought in to oversee the company, a Scotsman, very dynamic. Forceful individual and set in on the first management call, which I've never done. I've always been in charge. And after that first call, both Tim and I said, well, we're not doing that. We didn't do all this to sit in the back of the bus. You know, we declined on that opportunity. So I basically walked away. When”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we had grown the business by 50%. And as a board, we agreed that if a certain dollar amount offer came in then we would we would consider it it was sooner than yeah sooner than what we'd planned but Know, I'd been at it for 27 years.”
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“Make those decisions, and you know that worked well, but we realized we needed a proper board with some outside influence to help kind of guide the next coming years because we felt there were even greater opportunities, but Tim had a relationship with a gentleman named Michael Chu Caterton Partners. Their specialty was building consumer brands. That was their... The focus of their private equity business still is today. Got it. And so what we're going to do, they were going to buy a third of the business, and we're also going to recruit a top flight CEO, global CEO, and bring in a group that Caterton worked with to do strategic plans, which we'd never really done a strategic, comprehensive strategic plan.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, we were by that point, you know, we're doing about $100 million in sales, scaling and scaled. But Tim and I were the board of directors. We were co-CEOs and we were literally making all of our key decisions and pubs and restaurants. We'd sit down and have a meal.”
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“Well, it took three years to turn into a profitable business. By January of 1999, we became profitable, went into the black.”
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“Yeah, and I was the one that had to cover the cost. I think it got very stressful for my son. He did a good job getting it to a certain place. But at a certain point, he moved off island, left the business, and I recruited a young guy in Portland that I we worked together and it was tough the first six months, but then we made some key decisions to move the bottle part of the production to the mainland, find a good contract producer because that's where we were losing our shirt.”
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“In Hawaii, but it kind of plateaued at a certain sales causing it to lose about $20,000 a month. And this went on not for months, but for several years.”
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“By that point, we had a really good team in the UK, and we had a good team in Oregon. And I was able to have a little bit of arm's length role, but also having been a yogi, I still do yoga and meditation, that always balanced that, kept me in a healthy mindset and helped the stress from overwhelming me, particularly in high-risk periods. But we got the brewery open. In 95, we produced the first beer. Thought we could figure out this manufacturing thing in Hawaii, but I quickly became aware of how expensive it is to manufacture in Hawaii and why there weren't any beer producers.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, an impression, again, another Hawaiian impression, was when I was 15 years old, I went to Hawaii the first time, Waikiki, with my family, and I became aware of primo beer, which was the beer of Hawaii. It was a big deal in those days. And by the time we started, Primo didn't exist. It had been bought out and left the market. And I just sensed that there was one, not unlike launching kettle chips in the UK, there was a timing window to pioneer making local craft beer with a Hawaiian brand that would have that mystique not unlike primo beer.”
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“And he had gone to Hawaii on vacation with his Portland girlfriend and didn't come back. They said they found paradise and they found jobs on the big island of Hawaii and Kona. And I decided to come over for Thanksgiving. And we rented a large house on this bay in South Kona. But while there, I just had this epiphany that I had to figure out how to live part-time, not only in Hawaii, but on that bay in that specific area. It spoke to my Spiritual self that by then was no longer a Sikh. But out of that same trip, there was no beer being brewed in Hawaii and very little craft beer being imported. And I just talked to my son. I said, why don't we together start a brewery and I'll mentor you So I contracted an advisor in Portland to design the brewing equipment.”
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“Well, it actually has a link all the way back to my time in England in that being a yogi and a Sikh, you didn't drink alcohol. But while I was beginning to transition out of that and I discovered real als in England and with Tim we would go to his neighborhood pub and have our planning sessions and joy a pint. And so coming back to Oregon, I became aware of the craft brewing movement, which really was analogous almost to the natural food movement. Alternative to the industrial approach to making beer and my son had same son that I went to Europe with the motorcycle had gone to.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We I mean, we didn't go totally crazy, but yeah, flavors we wouldn't do in the US. But actually, one of the most successful flavors even today is the crinkle cut in the US salt and pepper. And that flavor. Oh, that's a good one. That flavor we originally pioneered in the UK and then created a version in the US.”
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“Well, I think less so more so in a way more sophisticated sales team in the UK. And so we ultimately got to the East Coast and did well. But I think the education we got doing business in the UK was absolutely key.”
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“Yeah, and so it just, you know, it started to get this mystique. And then we, Tim Meyer became ever more involved and he has a finance background. He insisted on putting a very, a more premium price on the product than I would have. He said, well, if it takes off, we will be able to gain profitability much quicker. And so It did, and we had to keep expanding the factory and buying more equipment. And those were big investments, but we were able to, you know, we had a small banking relationship, but largely we were self-funded in our growth, which was pretty cool.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it was similar to what we'd experienced in the US, where we got product placement, not anything that we'd engineered. And so people started talking and then there was a photo Princess Dye with a bag of kettle chips and a grocery bag. She would go shop in those days.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think it was evident it was American brand. The package was, however, adapted to the UK somewhat, but we still called them kettle chips, not kettle crisps.”
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“Some orders started coming in, but they were small and the beginning of June suddenly the product just switched on. It just word of mouth clicked and we just got deluged with orders and that's when all five of the supermarket chains all called. That same week, they all wanted it, they all saw it as a symbol of this kind of new wave of natural foods that they wanted to get into.”
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“It did. We threw these small distributors, we got initial production, but then there weren't new orders coming because we had no marketing. We were counting on the consumers discovering the product on the shelf. And so we didn't really anticipate how quiet things would be, but it went quiet. And, you know, I had literally bet the farm with loans to... Set up a factory over there, and I figured either it's just going to take time for word of mouth and then it will take off, or we've misjudged this and they don't want to pay a premium price, or maybe they don't want the product, but it was one of the two. And so, yeah, I was sweating bullets.”
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“Well, we didn't know. Our main goal was to set up a network of independent distributors, small distributors to get our products initially the smaller stores.”
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“They had their own distribution company. Tim had made a connection with a small group of convenience stores inside London train stations. And they'd agreed to let us put kettle chips, display them, we give them the product for free, and they could keep all the revenue, but they had to give us be willing to be interviewed about what their experience was. All the product sold out in all three stores that first weekend, and we had very positive feedback from each of the managers. And so that was the extent of our research. So we said, okay, the consumer wants the product over here.”
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“Well, in the last couple days that my son and I were in the UK, we were in London and we agreed that the following spring, I would come back to London and we would investigate this with more seriousness. So I went back, you know, got back involved in life and business. And I think January or so, I went and bought a suit and tie. I hadn't owned one because I figured you'd do business in England, you got to dress up. And got on a plane and packed some samples of kettle chips and flew over. And Tim had organized a meeting with a potato supplier up in the Norfolk region, which is Northeast of London a couple hours. We'd also made contact with a company called Derwent Valley Foods. They had begun making tortilla chips, the first tortilla chips in the UK, but doing pretty well with their brand.”
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“But I also felt that because of that tendency for the product to generate through word of mouth, this kind of mystique, I somehow felt that this would be very possible in the UK and that its population was very concentrated.”
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“Not a good business strategy, but yeah, it was naive. It was completely naive. But I'm also a believer that really very few good things happen without a level of naivety in the beginning. Otherwise, if you knew how hard it would be, you would never do it.”
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“Good insight. And my best answer to that is I really enjoyed being in Europe. I really enjoyed in the UK and I had a hunger for more. I felt there was an opportunity, but I also wanted to have an excuse to have to keep going back.”
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“Yeah, being an entrepreneur, I saw an opportunity. I mean, it was would be a very large leap to pull something like that off, but I felt that the brand, the product would have potentially good acceptance. Yeah.”
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“Well, you know, being interested in the food cultures, I was eager to look at some stores, look at what they call the crisp market in England. Tim made a list of stores to go to and collect certain brands of English crisps. I remember we were all at a big table with all these bags spread out and opening them and tasting them and talking about the flavors. You know, I began to feel kind of a cultural change afoot what drove the natural food movement, particularly on the west coast of the US. A lot of those lifestyle values around health and fitness and All those things I started to sense that that was just beginning in the UK and London particularly and that kettle chips as a natural foods product, it would be an opportunity to really pioneer a category.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. Well, Tim was a gentleman from Salem, Oregon originally, but he'd gone on to become a banker in London. And we headed off. He was a really interesting gentleman. And he had left the banking world very recently in London and was figuring out what he's going to do next. But yeah.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In general, things were by then going well with our kettle foods operation. I had a good team. I had management team. I had never been to Europe and I wanted to sort of experience the food cultures of Europe. That was an interest and also kind of a coming of Coming of age trip with my son who was 19. And in a way, without admitting it, it was sort of a coming-of-age for myself. I wanted to get out into the world and explore it a little more.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“and skidded across the southbound lanes And then rolled up on the very outside onto a grass bank with all the windows breaking out of the car. And we were all fortunately okay. I was a bit bruised and battered. Wow. So that was kind of a wake-up. We were kind of blessed by not getting hurt in. It kind of jolted me out of my bit of depression about where we were. And so it just said, okay, we're going to figure it out. And so we got it together and started making good product again. Managed to get through that period.”
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“Blew it and the reputation And so I went up to Seattle for a little regional natural food trade show to talk to our customers to tell them that we were fixing the problem and on the drive back, my then wife was driving and I was pretty depressed about the whole situation and pretty down about it. And my wife fell asleep at the wheel on I-5 and the car went out of control.”
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“Know it was hard to make phone calls even from India, but I was able to kind of stand in touch, but we had to take a lot of product back. By the time I got back, you know, we had shut down the plant. Demand had kind of evaporated for the moment. And it was kind of an existential situation because I had taken out some large loans to set up this new plant. But fortunately, the nut operation made a small profit and it buoyed up kettle chips would have never made it. Without the nuts operation.”
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“Yeah, I was still seeing practicing. One of my main people at our factory in Salem, Jim Green, you know, there were no cell phones in those days. And I was at the terminal waiting to catch a Pan Am flight and I got paged. And it was my guy, Jim, and sounding pretty stressed out. But when Safeway, Northern California got their product, they tested them and the oil was rancid in the chips. And they were rejecting the whole truckload didn't understand the management of friar oil and how it degrades and it just so happened when we went to the second shift that through the balance off and so I was literally about to step on this flight and I had to tell my guy I said I'm sorry you got to figure it out and so I went to India amidst this kind of this disaster”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Salem, which he did. I then got a bank loan, I ordered all new equipment and by, I think by December of 82 we had moved our production into this new factory which could produce a whole lot more kettle chips and so by January or so Safeway Northern California division came calling. And they were very enthusiastic, and they wanted to put them in all their stores, but to fulfill that, we had to go to a second shift, a night shift. And I was actually in San Francisco on a certain day getting ready with my family to fly to India. I was going to make my trip to India.”
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“There were some makers in the East, Cape Cod had started, I don't know, probably a year or less than a year before us. And so they existed. There was one in New Orleans, I think, called Zaps.”
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“Initially, Guy, there was no marketing. We just put him on the shelf. We did within six months, we started doing tastings in stores and things when we had more capacity. But initially, the stores promoted them.”
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“Yeah, you would monitor the temperature of the oil. And when you slice the potatoes in, the temperature drops, and then it gradually comes up. And what we later learned was that temperature variation is what creates the character of a hand cooked chip and that extra crunchiness. So, starting out, we can make 40 cases a night. So 12 bags to a case, but it was all very much by hand. And I have the photograph that shows me holding the first two bags of kettle chips off the line, this young guy in a... Turbine in late July of 1982 with a big”
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“Well, in the very beginning, we only made potato chips at night because our factory was making nuts during the day and super used. We had two oil friars, which was a vat maybe four and a half feet long by four feet wide. And I purchased a food service potato slicer, which was not adequate, but we made it work and we would hand feed the potatoes we bought them in 50 pound bags.”
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“It was and it wasn't because we had these friars we knew for oil temperatures and it was a big leap because potatoes don't behave like nuts behave. It seemed like every load of potatoes we would bring in would be a little different in the way they fried. It was completely trial and error. Idol team and we started in the late spring buying russet burbank potatoes and we chose the russet burbank potato because it produces the highest natural sugars. It wants to caramelize with the temperatures and you get A darker colored product, but there's more flavor”
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“Yeah Comes down. Everyone said that word, that's just not the word you want to use. It can mean a lot of different things, you know, that it was a stupid idea. So when I got back from Hawaii, I went to this same designer. I said, I want you to same design. I just want you to change pot to kettle. That's how kettle chips became a brand.”
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“Well, actually, on that, I'm just trying to remember sequences. I had already created a brand on paper, and I had spent, I remember $1,200 with a graphic designer in Salem, Oregon, which at that time seemed like an absolute fortune. I was going to originally call the product pot chips POT.”
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“Chips are very high turnover product category. People are also very committed to their brand, particularly with potato chips. So that had been registered in the back of my mind a few years before. And I enjoyed the nut business, but I knew it would always be limited geographically. And I also knew, I sensed that natural foods would grow beyond just the natural food store, it would eventually go into the mainstream. And I wanted a product that could bridge that. gap in being in the supermarkets.”
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“So the light bulb went off. Well, if this guy can make such a splash and be in the Wall Street Journal and have this kind of cult following, and he's bringing his potatoes all the way from Oregon, and I'm based in Oregon, I can do this.”
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“I'd like to meet him. And he said. Sure, come over. So I showed up this little industrial estate. It was in this little metal building and he came out and greeted me. Very nice man, Filipino man. I had a grandchild on his hip, a couple dogs running around and had this little factory he was making potato chips. And I got to ask him a few questions. He would not invite me into the factory, though. I never got to see how he made them. But the one big takeaway was I remember reading the article and it talked about the special Maui potatoes he was using. And I said, so tell me about these Maui potatoes. You're growing potatoes here. And he laughed. He goes, no, that was a misunderstanding. There's no regular potatoes growing Hawaii. All of my potatoes come from Klamath Falls, Oregon.”
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“What happened? It's a good story. Not exactly true. I had read about the Maui potato chip company. I'd read an article in the Wall Street Journal that it... Gotten my attention, planted a seed. And so I was considering the idea of making handmade potato chips because we had oil roasters. We made nuts in. But yeah, I went to Hawaii for a vacation, but also to check out the Maui potato chip company. Interesting.”
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“Well, it was, yeah, I think by, let's call it maybe 1980, you know, I had a little. Nice little factory in Salem with a warehouse. I had a broker. I was buying all my peanuts through. And he tipped me off that there was going to be a big crop failure that year because of drought. And so I went very bullish. I speculated, which was really crazy. And I contracted way, way more nuts than I actually was currently producing. And sure enough, I was sitting on all these valuable contracts in the market for peanuts essentially tripled. So I ended up selling truckloads of 50,000 pounds of peanuts. And I was making like $25,000 a truckload. And that effort capitalized my little business, which prior to that was extremely thin on working capital.”
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“Sell them. I managed without some of that loan money. I purchased probably a 1930s dry roaster and started roasting bulk nuts, mostly a lot of peanuts for brind your own peanut butter in natural food stores and that ultimately evolved into making trail mixes and then ultimately making our own branded peanut butter and almond butter.”
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“Well, I wasn't sure what exactly I was going to do. I was basically living by my wits and my previous experiences, but I knew that I was going to start a business that was going to be my own for my own ownership. I wasn't sure exactly how it would evolve. My main priority was just to get enough income to feed my family. So that was distributing cheese, bulk cheese, which within a year I started bulk nuts, but I had to get some working capital. And I got to know a local banker in Salem who happened to be an avid skier in Mount Bachelor. And so I talked him into giving me a $10,000 working capital loan and I sweetened the pot with a bunch of free passes to Mount Bachelor. He shouldn't have been loaning me money. I was complete. Complete risk.”
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“Yeah, I did. I definitely did. But I was also still very committed to the overall vision and movement of the community. And so, you know, I sucked it up, but I had to find some income. And pretty quickly, yeah.”
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