Ben Cohen

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Radical · Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen) · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, originally, we had no plan to become anything more than one homemade ice cream shop in an old converted gas station.

Is that gas station still there?

No, it got torn down.

It turned into a parking lot.

Of course.

There's a song about that.

First, when we opened up, we said we want to be a community-based ice cream shop.

And we didn't really know what that meant.

But we wanted to run our business in the way that...

regular old people walking down the street would like to see a business run.

You know, essentially a business that cared about the community as opposed to a lot of the normal mode of business, which is extracting from the community.

The norm of business, and I'm not talking about small businesses here, but the norm of larger businesses is that

It exploits the environment, it exploits its workers and it exploits the community.

And we didn't want to do that.

So, you know, as a little homemade ice cream shop, we started producing free festivals for the community and

put on evenings of free movies.

But you still wanted to make money.

I mean, this was a community-based business, but you needed to have a bottom line.

Right.

I mean, what happened before that was that the business is growing and we're entering new markets.

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