Dan and Angie Bastian are the founders of Angie's Boom Chicka Pop, one of the most successful homegrown snack food stories of the 21st century. Dan and Angie were Dan and Angie sold the business in the fall of 2017 as a part of a $250 million dollar buyout by Conagra Brands, a company known for such successes as Orville Redenbacher, Vlasic, Birds Eye, and Marie Calendars.
In this episode, Dan and Angie discuss their individual upbringings, how they first met, where they moved, their professional careers, their inspiration for launching their kettle corn business, what the early days were like, their secrets to growing the business, what it was like in the hyper growth years, how they experimented the new recipes, how private equity investors changed the game, what it was like to finally sell their company, and what life is like for the couple now that they're out of the business.
