Ben Cohen
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1,024 appearances
9 recordings
7 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 19 Jun
Ben Cohen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then, you know, it's essentially a few people who already have a lot of money who would like to have more money.
and instead what we wanted to do was to make the community the owners of the business so that as the business prospered the community would automatically prosper because they'd be owners we wanted to sell it to our neighbors so we had this first ever vermont public stock offering
And sold out the offering.
One out of every hundred Vermont families bought stock in Ben and Jerry's.
And, you know, we would hold these shareholders meetings.
And, you know, most companies are trying to do it at an inconvenient time and place because they don't want people to show up.
We had it on the weekend and it was a big music festival and everything.
That was really good.
And then lots of people got to eat ice cream.
That's correct.
Yeah.
But eventually, we did have a need for more money.
And so we held a national public stock offering.
And that was when we formalized our giving into the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, which is
independent from the company.
We were fair trade before fair trade was fair trade.
That's correct.
I met Bernie at the first meeting of what became the Social Ventures Network, socially conscious business people that were coming together
We're walking around this lake together.
Bernie was a Jewish Buddhist nuclear physicist monk.
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