Daniel Lubetzky
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 12 Jan
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But we never were friends after that.
What I talk about, this is a Washington Post op-ed where I explained that...
My grandfather always taught us to not be arrogant about money, but he would emphasize not to be so arrogant that you think it's beneath you to pick up the pennies.
And certainly from my experience building Kind, I was very proud to...
be resourceful and to, I mean, I would have not been able to build a multi-billion dollar company, create billions of dollars in shareholder value if I hadn't been comfortable picking up free furniture.
Like when we were starting the company, did you ever watch Mad Max?
Sometimes I feel we were like in the, like there were these people living in the subterranean thing would come out.
If there was a fee, a free desk would like, that somebody left would grab the desk and bring it into our basement office.
But we saved ourselves $500 and we,
operated out of the basement of our building instead of a fancy place, and, and, and, and.
And there were so many ways in which we were initially frugal, then resourceful, but we didn't waste money and we stretched those dollars and we were able to create billions of dollars in value.
And still today, it's not that I have to not throw out that avocado or that bread, but I hate throwing food away
not just because there's people that are hungry, but because I was taught by my parents to not think that I'm above that.
And it has nothing to do with being cheap or anything else or not being kind or giving because the opposite.
I give tens of millions of dollars a year every single year in charity.
And I'm very generous when I have guests and I try to be lavish with my guests.
I love giving.
I just don't like throwing stuff out.
I think it's dumb and stupid.
And the more...
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