New Releases by Seth Goldman

In an incredibly fun and accessible two-color graphic-book format, the cofounders of Honest Tea tell the engaging story of how they created and built a mission-driven business, offering a wealth of insights and advice to entrepreneurs, would-be entrepreneurs, and millions of Honest Tea drinkers about the challenges and hurdles of creating a successful business--and the importance of perseverance and creative problem-solving. Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff began Honest Tea fifteen years ago with little more than a tea leaf of an idea and a passion to offer organic, freshly brewed, lightly sweetened bottled tea. Today Honest Tea is a rapidly expanding national brand sold in more than 100,0000 grocery stores, restaurants, convenience stores and drugstores across the country. The brand has flourished as American consumers move toward healthier and greener lifestyles.

Seth Goldman, cofounder and TeaEO of Honest Tea, America’s leading organic bottled tea maker (favored by President Barack Obama) analyzes his decision to make a game-changing deal with Coca-Cola. Can a fast-growing, organic start-up connect with a corporate giant and retain its own soul? Here’s what you can learn from his experience. In the world of start-ups, there are two kinds of entrepreneurs. One founds a business in order to sell it early and get richer quicker. The other establishes a brand and nurtures it. I am the nurturing type. My goal has always been to make the Honest Tea brand stand for authentic, healthy, organic products; a brand that customers trust and love. My partner, Barry Nalebuff, and I knew that we wanted to build a company with staying power, and that to do so, we’d have to keep control of the enterprise. Then, once we were ready to take it to the next level, we did our best to structure an arrangement where we could keep Honest Tea, well, honest. In essence, that’s our story. But as with any good story, there have been many twists and turns along the way.