🎧🍊Selling Fruit Peels, Getting into Retail, and How One Chat Changed His Trajectory with Matt Weiss, CEO of RIND Snacks
Matt Weiss, Founder & CEO of RIND Snacks: The Consumer VC episode #317
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Hey friends,
Thank you Brette Simon for the introduction to our guest today, Matt Weiss. Matt is the co-founder and CEO RIND Snacks. RIND Snacks makes crave-able whole fruit snacks – focused on the peel.
We discuss:
The inspiration behind starting RIND Snacks
Why starting a business later in his career was an advantage
How he first got into retail
The challenges of food CPG
Why RIND was a side hustle for two years
A brief conversation at Fancy Food that changed RIND’s trajectory
The point where he raised capital
How he thought about the number of SKUs to launch with
Approach to retail expansion & much much more
Thank you for listening.