What do you do after building and selling a billion-dollar company?
In this episode of Power Players, Brian Sozzi sits down with Bai founder Ben Weiss to discuss why building a second company may be even harder than the first. Weiss shares lessons from creating Bai, selling the business, starting over with Crook & Marker, why founders have to embrace failure, and why great brands require obsession long after launch.
The conversation also explores entrepreneurship, leadership, fundraising, product innovation, building consumer brands, and why success never removes the need to start from scratch.
Timestamps
00:00 Building Bai from a basement
02:53 Getting your first breakthrough
05:25 Raising money without losing control
07:06 Knowing you have a winner
08:10 Building the early team
11:56 Selling Bai
14:03 Why corporate life wasn’t for him
15:23 Seeing Bai on store shelves
17:10 Would he buy Bai back?
19:58 Starting over again
21:40 Failure every day
23:03 Reinventing alcohol
26:50 The next billion-dollar opportunity
27:37 Preparing the next generation
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