Daniel Lubetzky

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616 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 12 Jan

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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin · How Kindness Became a Billion-Dollar Business Strategy with Daniel Lubetzky · 12 Jan 2026 podcast

But it was not something I decided last December.

It started in 2017 or late 2016, early 2017 when we brought our strategic investor to invest in Kind and they wanted to eventually acquire Kind and I decided.

at that point, that it was worth doing it.

And that's, you know, it's a tough, tough, tough decision for an entrepreneur to do.

It still is my baby.

First of all, the company that acquired Kind, Mars, has done a good job at preserving their kind promise, meaning the ingredients are the same, the product is the same, and I'm very appreciative of that.

Still, for an entrepreneur, it's very, very hard to see your baby move on.

And it's very easy to feel like a gigantic behemoth is not guiding your baby the way you want it to be guided and taking it in the right direction and making it the centerpiece of everything you do.

So it's particularly when you're the founder.

I started the company from the windowless basement of my building.

There was a trash compactor across from the window, from the office.

And there was nowhere to escape that trash compactor's fumes because it was a windowless basement.

You know, it was, it was a journey where I was a one person operation, then two people, then four people, then eight people, then two people, you know, you lose everybody.

It was a very long journey.

And then all of a sudden TurboGrowth and 500 people and, you know, incredible multi-billion dollar sales.

And being part of every path, it's just an incredible growth experience.

You grow and you learn so much.

And it is part of your identity, like handing out kind bars.

By the way, I don't have a stake in the company anymore.

But one of the things that I agreed on with my former partners was that I would get

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