What Would Ben Do?: Recent Episodes
WWBD: A Natural Products Industry Business Growth Series
'What Would Ben Do?' is an invitation to join five entrepreneurial friends at that loud table in the corner. Meet Ryan Benn, Matt Breech, Charles Chang, Richard Pollock and Ian Walker and hear their frank discussions on the unique challenges and triumphs of building a business in the dynamic natural products industry.
The guys discuss the ups and downs of "work life balance" as an entrepreneur. Is it even possible? And how they create their own work life reality.
We all know the secret sauce to is people and culture. The boys talk about building your company through hiring the right team, wrapping the right culture around them, and protecting that culture.
The boys share their version of their own individual David and Goliath stories that every entrepreneur faces. Hear the ways they took the fight to the giants.
To finance or not to finance is the question in this episode. The boys share their thoughts, the pros, and the cons, on scaling and growing with debt, equity, or self-financing.
Join the boys as they share war stories of their most difficult days as entrepreneurs. From regulatory nightmares, transactional trepidations to vendor vendettas, get a front-row seat to the roller coaster.
Get to know the boys as they talk about their origin story and why they decided to start WWBD.