Shawn Ryan

I hope I know how to open a damn bag.

Yummy.

Those are good.

Nice.

What made you want to have gummy bears as a product?

Because it's super fun.

You do melatonin ones or something?

I can eat them in.

I grew up in Chicago, Illinois.

And like in the city, but like near the outskirts of the city, part of the city where a lot of like firemen and cops would, I guess, live because they had to live technically in the city.

You know, I love like Chicago is a kind of fun, like well-designed city where you have like a lot of like awesome public schools.

And I went to a...

Edison Regional Gifted Center was nearby where I lived at the time.

My parents picked that location to be near any schools.

And it was, you know, fun growing up, awesome having like smart peers and being challenged in school.

And then, yeah, I guess I can keep iterating on different parts of it, but I definitely had some enthusiastic parents.

And that's where this whole like taking advice from mentors and kind of just following different rabbit holes led to where I am now.

So my parents are both lawyers, but they're not lawyers in the way all other lawyers fancy sense.

So my dad, for most of his career, was a public defender.

So he worked for Cook County.