Ben Cohen

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The Best One Yet · 🍦 “Banana Split” — Interview with Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Ben Cohen · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

Maybe we would get involved in, maybe we'd get into other products besides ice cream.

You know, it's, it's interesting.

I mean, people have suggested that and I've said, you know, look, when we started Ben and Jerry's, uh, Jerry and I were 26 and, and we had, we had a whole lot of energy and, and,

You know, as a percentage of energy available, I'm working as hard as I was back when I was 26.

And, you know, as I've gone through this now for close to a year, in the fall, it'll be a year that the Free Ben and Jerry's campaign has been going on.

And yeah, this has been a 24-7 thing for me.

This has taken over my life.

And I guess if I realized at the time that I started that, that

Well, I could start another ice cream business instead.

Maybe I would have done it because, I mean, I just didn't realize.

You know, Jerry says sometimes I don't really think ahead that far.

And I didn't realize how much energy and effort and freeing Ben and Jerry's was going to take.

I mean, it doesn't help that it's become the biggest selling ice cream.

Why was it such a great move?

Well, because Jerry is Jerry.

You know, I mean, we have very, very similar values.

We have very, very similar outlooks on life.

We were both fat as kids.

And we had a couple of rules when we started our business.

One was that if we have a disagreement.

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