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Matthew Wadiak

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Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

But ultimately... Yeah, fresh food.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

But ultimately... Yeah, fresh food.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

Yeah. I will say when you're working with people like that, the ops team, the marketing team, my co-founder, Elia, who is our CTO, you build these kind of friendships that are just like, these are my guys for life. We're just so, so close and connected even today. And it's nice to have gone through that experience with like-minded folks.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

Yeah. I will say when you're working with people like that, the ops team, the marketing team, my co-founder, Elia, who is our CTO, you build these kind of friendships that are just like, these are my guys for life. We're just so, so close and connected even today. And it's nice to have gone through that experience with like-minded folks.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

Yeah. I will say when you're working with people like that, the ops team, the marketing team, my co-founder, Elia, who is our CTO, you build these kind of friendships that are just like, these are my guys for life. We're just so, so close and connected even today. And it's nice to have gone through that experience with like-minded folks.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

So moments like that. In reality, something happened. You know, people tend to be pretty forgiving as long as you poison somebody or whatever. But, you know, we were hyper vigilant around that kind of stuff. We were young and we were you know, we wanted everything to be the best. So we put a lot of work into it. But there were there were there were a few funny stories like that along the way.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

So moments like that. In reality, something happened. You know, people tend to be pretty forgiving as long as you poison somebody or whatever. But, you know, we were hyper vigilant around that kind of stuff. We were young and we were you know, we wanted everything to be the best. So we put a lot of work into it. But there were there were there were a few funny stories like that along the way.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

So moments like that. In reality, something happened. You know, people tend to be pretty forgiving as long as you poison somebody or whatever. But, you know, we were hyper vigilant around that kind of stuff. We were young and we were you know, we wanted everything to be the best. So we put a lot of work into it. But there were there were there were a few funny stories like that along the way.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

Yeah. So folks looking to exit a company, whether it's a sale or IPO, a lot of the business becomes oriented around, you know, readiness for sale or IPO, which includes a lot of internal audit, a lot of systems. You know, at one point we were running, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue on QuickBooks, you know, like putting an ERP in place. I'm like, oh, it's for the NetSuite.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

Yeah. So folks looking to exit a company, whether it's a sale or IPO, a lot of the business becomes oriented around, you know, readiness for sale or IPO, which includes a lot of internal audit, a lot of systems. You know, at one point we were running, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue on QuickBooks, you know, like putting an ERP in place. I'm like, oh, it's for the NetSuite.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

Yeah. So folks looking to exit a company, whether it's a sale or IPO, a lot of the business becomes oriented around, you know, readiness for sale or IPO, which includes a lot of internal audit, a lot of systems. You know, at one point we were running, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue on QuickBooks, you know, like putting an ERP in place. I'm like, oh, it's for the NetSuite.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

NetSuite is an easy today, but It was really difficult back then, especially when you're transferring over that much receivable and billing and complex systems. So I would say there are challenges associated with that. Any entrepreneurs out there listening, integrate your CRM and your ERP early. Don't do what we did. Yeah. The culture changes a little bit around that.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

NetSuite is an easy today, but It was really difficult back then, especially when you're transferring over that much receivable and billing and complex systems. So I would say there are challenges associated with that. Any entrepreneurs out there listening, integrate your CRM and your ERP early. Don't do what we did. Yeah. The culture changes a little bit around that.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

NetSuite is an easy today, but It was really difficult back then, especially when you're transferring over that much receivable and billing and complex systems. So I would say there are challenges associated with that. Any entrepreneurs out there listening, integrate your CRM and your ERP early. Don't do what we did. Yeah. The culture changes a little bit around that.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

Certainly, there's excitement around those events, but it's very important to not lose creativity and engagement and innovation around product because... It's many companies get to that point, probably including Blue Abram and fail to innovate at the speed that they need to, as they did when they were early, because they're becoming more conservative. They're worried.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

Certainly, there's excitement around those events, but it's very important to not lose creativity and engagement and innovation around product because... It's many companies get to that point, probably including Blue Abram and fail to innovate at the speed that they need to, as they did when they were early, because they're becoming more conservative. They're worried.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

Certainly, there's excitement around those events, but it's very important to not lose creativity and engagement and innovation around product because... It's many companies get to that point, probably including Blue Abram and fail to innovate at the speed that they need to, as they did when they were early, because they're becoming more conservative. They're worried.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

They're getting ready for this financial event. And the financial event should not define the company. The company's innovation should define the company. So I'd say that that is, you know, was an area, the financial stuff was an area of focus. I think, you know, in hindsight, it's important to make sure the creativity and product innovation remain at the most important, the highest level.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

They're getting ready for this financial event. And the financial event should not define the company. The company's innovation should define the company. So I'd say that that is, you know, was an area, the financial stuff was an area of focus. I think, you know, in hindsight, it's important to make sure the creativity and product innovation remain at the most important, the highest level.

Living The Red Life
How Matthew Wadiak Is Disrupting the Beverage Industry

They're getting ready for this financial event. And the financial event should not define the company. The company's innovation should define the company. So I'd say that that is, you know, was an area, the financial stuff was an area of focus. I think, you know, in hindsight, it's important to make sure the creativity and product innovation remain at the most important, the highest level.