CPG

#234 - Matt Czarnecki, Verb: Taking A CPG Energy Bar From Dorm To Scale

October 20, 2022
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Guest Name:
Matt Czarnecki
Role:
Co-Founder & CEO
Category:
CPG
Speciality:
Food
Company Name:
Verb Energy
Revenue Stage:
10-50M
Following:
10-50M
Guest Bio
Matt Czarnecki is the Co-Founder & CEO of Verb Energy, a company that makes healthy and delicious energy products for every day. While still in undergrad at Yale, Matt started verb with two classmates when looking for an alternative energy source to overpriced coffee and granola. Since launching in spring 2016 they have gone on to build one of the fastest growing products in the energy bar market, and raise millions of dollars from top VCs.

Episode Summary

Matt Czarnecki is the Co-Founder & CEO of Verb Energy, a company that makes healthy and delicious energy products for every day. While still in undergrad at Yale, Matt started verb with two classmates when looking for an alternative energy source to overpriced coffee and granola. Since launching in spring 2016 they have gone on to build one of the fastest growing products in the energy bar market, and raise millions of dollars from top VCs.

Episode Notes

On this episode of the pod, Matt joins Blaine & Ramon to talk about building a successful CPG brand from his dorm room, finding product market fit, discovering the companies ideal customer, using tech as part of the companies DNA, iterating with product feedback, raising capital, scaling up, and much more.

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Matt Czarnecki - Co-Founder & CEO of Verb Energy
Ramon Berrios - CEO of Trend.io
Blaine Bolus - Co-Founder of Seated


Episode Transcript & Castmagic Chat

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Ramon Berrios
Founder and CEO at Trend
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Ramon has Co-Founded Trend. It is a curated marketplace of creators and brands. We help brands source high quality custom content. We love working with new, innovative companies that are changing the game.

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Blaine
Co-Founded Seated,COO at Omnipanel
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Blaine Bolus is the Co-Founder of OmniPanel, the first software platform connecting CX & Internal teams.OmniPanel, backed by top Silicon Valley VCs, is building software infrastructure that powers cross-functional work, in an industry projected to be a $641 Billion Market in 2022.