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Honest Tea + Beyond Meat Executive Seth Goldman to Share Career Experience with EXPLO Students

Hot off the heels of a record-setting IPO, Beyond Meat Executive Chairman Seth Goldman is set to speak with EXPLO entrepreneurship students during the 2019 summer sessions.

Goldman, one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the past two decades, led the plant-based food substitute to close out it’s first day of trading 163 percent over it’s IPO — making it the best-performing first-day IPO in nearly 20 years. Goldman and his team were recently honored by TIME Magazine when the publication named Beyond Sausage one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2018.

Goldman got his start as an entrepreneur when he launched Honest Tea with his co-founder and Yale Business School professor, Barry Nalebuff, in 1998. Prior to earning his MBA and launching the business, he taught English abroad, worked on the 1988 Michael Dukakis presidential campaign, served as press secretary for U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentson (D-Tex.), was an AmeriCorps volunteer and interned with the U.S. State Department. Goldman was also a faculty member at EXPLO when he was an undergraduate at Harvard.

“It’s wonderful to bring Seth back into the fold at EXPLO, and we’re thrilled that he is willing to share his depth of experience as an entrepreneur who has brought to market two incredibly successful businesses with our students this summer,” says EXPLO President Moira Kelly, who worked alongside Goldman during his tenure with the summer program.

Founded in 2009, Beyond Meat sells products in more than 30,000 grocery stores, restaurants, universities, hotels and stadiums throughout the United States today. The Company’s flagship product, The Beyond Burger, has revolutionized the meat aisle by being the first plant-based burger to be sold in the meat case alongside beef at major grocery chains including Whole Foods Market, Kroger, Albertsons Companies and Target. The company was recently name a Forbes CircleUp25 Top Consumer Brand for 2018 and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2017.

Honest Tea is the nation’s top selling organic bottled tea, specializing in beverages that are organic and Fair Trade Certified ™ . In March 2011, Honest Tea was acquired by The Coca-Cola Company, becoming the first organic and Fair Trade brand in the world’s largest beverage distribution system. Honest Tea and Honest Kids is sold in more than 130,000 stores in the USA and Europe, including Wendy’s, Subway and Chik-fil-A. Seth also serves on the board of Ripple Foods, the Yale School of Management, the American Beverage Association, and Bethesda Green.

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