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Building One of the Fastest Growing CPG Companies in History | Peter Rahal of David Protein, Medici Brands & RXBAR

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Building One of the Fastest Growing CPG Companies in History | Peter Rahal of David Protein, Medici Brands & RXBAR

David Senra

4 HOURS AGO
David Senra

David Senra

4 HOURS AGO
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Peter Rahal is the co-founder of RXBAR, David Protein, and Medici Brands. After selling RXBAR for $600 million, he tried investing and quickly discovered he was miserable watching other people run companies. He explains why he returned to protein bars, why...

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Peter Rahal explains why selling RXBAR pushed him back into operating, how David Protein is built around product mastery and disciplined organization, and why he embraces difficulty, speed, and productive conflict.
01:47
Investing was too passive
07:18
“I need to get back in the game.”
12:16
Protein bars are the wedge, not the destination
15:52
Consistency makes marketing easy
21:16
Always choose the hard path
29:11
A decade of growth in two years
33:26
Treat the organization as a product
37:00
Former founders are David's most talented people
48:05
Single-source ingredients demand supply agreements
55:10
Greenoaks earned his respect before the deal
58:04
Choose alignment over maximum valuation
1:02:53
Fix the problem, then get out of the way
1:06:58
The job is to fight bureaucracy
1:12:49
Stay close to the problems
1:19:43
Build pain tolerance without losing feeling

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Life after selling RXBAR for $600 million
00:00
Going all in and burning the boats
07:29
Building the most important food company of the 21st century
11:48
How a brand is like a human being
13:49
Why Peter always chooses the hard path
21:07
From zero to $300 million in two years
28:17
Why Peter started selling frozen cod
29:59
The organization is the product
32:51
Why he recruits former founders
36:56
Buying his supplier and victimizing his competitors
41:15
How Neil Mehta and Greenoaks earned a spot on the cap table
51:56
How Peter fundraises
55:47
Running a business is like a river
1:00:31
Why the company is named Medici
1:04:16
Bureaucracy is not inevitable
1:06:28
Why Peter has 25 direct reports
1:11:48
Peter's principle of reactionary leadership support
1:16:06
On divine discontent and loving the fight
1:17:45

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David Senra: Okay, I want to start with the fact that you sold your previous company for $600 million. You and your co-founder own 90% of it. You find yourself as a very young man with about a quarter billion dollars in cash. What happens next? Peter Raha...