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Good morning to a new Forbes interview series (over cereal) with CEOs, thought leaders and entrepreneurs <\/strong><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s been nearly 25 years since I co-founded Method, an eco-friendly line of soaps, out of a small, fairly dirty apartment in San Francisco. I\u2019d dreamed of disrupting giants like SC
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\n <\/fbs-ticker> Johnson and Proctor & Gamble. In 2007, Method did more than $100 million in revenue and, well, we later exited to SC Johnson.<\/p>\n

The sale was a big deal both personally and professionally. But a deep sadness set in. I couldn\u2019t figure out why or worse how to shake it. Finally, it hit me: Since selling Method, the risk\u2014the thrill!\u2014was gone. I was an entrepreneur with no preneur. And I started to wonder: Could I do it again? What if I\u2019d just gotten lucky? It wasn\u2019t until I committed myself to that next venture, Olly Nutrition, that the dark clouds parted.<\/p>\n

In 2019, I sold that company to Unilever. But I can tell you that imposter syndrome is real. That\u2019s one of the topics I\u2019m excited to cover in a new interview series I\u2019m doing here for Forbes with journalist Mickey Rapkin, who\u2019s written for Fast Company, WSJ<\/em> and GQ<\/em>. (He also has maybe the best cocktail party anecdote: He wrote the book Pitch Perfect<\/em> which inspired the movie franchise.) We\u2019re calling our show Cereal Entrepreneur and it\u2019s a series of casual conversations\u2014over a bowl of cereal\u2014with CEOs, thought leaders and entrepreneurs about their journeys. We\u2019ll go deep on their wins, losses, and personal anxieties to answer the question: How do you make success repeatable?<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve lined up a murderer\u2019s row of inspiring guests. Over the next six weeks, we\u2019ll break bread\u2014or Cheerios or Lucky Charms or some direct-to-consumer cereal\u2014with Sweetgreen
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\n <\/fbs-ticker> co-founder Nicolas Jammet, who helped build that brand from a single salad stop in Georgetown to an empire with more than 200 locations nationwide and counting. (Sweetgreen nearly folded in year one, he tells us, and you\u2019ll want to hear why.)<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also got an interview with Shea Moisture founder Richelieu Dennis, who sold Sundial Brands to Unilever in 2017 for $1.6 billion dollars and bought Essence Magazine<\/em> a few days later. He\u2019s got a lot to say about closing the racial wealth gap. (Speaking of great cocktail party anecdotes, he\u2019s got one involving D-Nice that we\u2019re still laughing about weeks later.) Plus, we\u2019ll sit down with Justin Kosmides, co-founder of the hip e-bike brand Vela, who details why he just moved his operations from China to Detroit (and the unlikely role Wal-Mart played in that decision). We also chatted with Jeff Raider (who helped launch both Warby Parker and Harry\u2019s) and the founders of Blank Street Coffee, Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha. <\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s much more to come. New installments of Cereal Entrepreneur will drop every Tuesday for the next six weeks. But you can get a first look by clicking on our little trailer above.<\/p>\n

I launched Method, Olly and Welly Health\u2014which collectively have an enterprise valuation of more than $1 billion dollars. I\u2019m now working on two new startups: Cast Jewelry (a luxury jewelry brand) and Will Perform, a pain relief and muscle care business with Serena Williams. But in many ways I\u2019m still learning every single day. My co-host, Mickey, is similarly curious. And our guests responded with a master class in entrepreneurship. We\u2019d love for you to grab a bowl of cereal and join us on this ride.\u2014ERIC RYAN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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