Ka-Pop! Snacks

I Turned A Recipe In My Kitchen Into A $10MM/Year CPG Snack Company

October 25th, 2021
Dustin Finkel
Founder, Ka-Pop! Snacks
$100K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
50
Employees
Ka-Pop! Snacks
from Loveland, CO, USA
started March 2019
$99,999
revenue/mo
1
Founders
50
Employees
market size
$1.18B
starting costs
$30.1K
gross margin
30%
time to build
720 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
content-library
best tools
Grammarly, Todoist, Zoom
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
44 Pros & Cons
tips
2 Tips
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productivity
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Hello! Who are you, and what business did you start?

Hey, I’m Dustin Finkel, the creator, and CEO of Ka-Pop! and Awakened Foods (a new Holding Company that owns Ka-Pop!, Bubba’s Fine Foods, and Awakened Food Crafters). We are an innovative and fearlessly delicious snack company. I started these businesses to create snacks that were genuinely authentic and craveably delicious. It’s disheartening how many consumers have lost their trust in ‘healthy foods’ because they are either misleading in their claims and/or require you to give up taste.

Ka-Pop! is an Ancient Grain snack company using only 100% Ancient Grains, Cold-Pressed Oil, and Natural Seasonings. 80% of the grains grown worldwide are Corn, Rice, & Wheat – they damage our soils and our gut biomes. Ancient Grains or what we like to call SUPER grains! – have been the same for thousands of years without genetic modifications to make them bigger and sweeter. If history hasn’t changed these grains for thousands of years, why should we? Sorghum is also incredibly sustainable. It needs little to no irrigation to grow (91% of the land it grows on uses zero irrigation), and it revitalizes our soils. Our snacks are top...

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