Seth Goldman is President and CEO (TeaEO) of Honest Tea, the company he founded together with Professor Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management. An entrepreneur at heart, Seth started with lemonade stands and newspaper routes, created an urban service corps and almost pursued a prize-winning biotechnology idea before he started Honest Tea in his kitchen in 1998.
Before launching Honest Tea, Seth was Vice President of Calvert Social Investment Fund, managing the marketing and sales efforts for the nation's largest family of socially responsible mutual funds. His previous work includes managing a corporate child labor initiative for the Calvert Foundation, directing an AmeriCorps demonstration project in Baltimore and serving as Senator Lloyd Bentsen's Deputy Press Secretary for two and a half years. Before that he worked for a year in China (1987-1988) and a year and a half in the former Soviet Union (1989-1990).
Seth Goldman received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Master's degree from the Yale School of Management.
In our very first meeting with the buyer at Whole Foods, we showed him this and he said, this looks great. I am interested but I cannot take it right now because we had already presented five other products and we were not ready to bring it to them because it was a native American recipe but we did ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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