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Podcast: Taste Radio
Episode: Ep. 225: How The Founder Of Stacy's Pita Chips Went From Struggling To Find Laundry Quarters To A Quarter-Billion Dollar Exit
Description: A few months before launching Stacy's Pita Chips, co-founder Stacy Madison was struggling to find quarters to pay for her laundry. That became less of an issue a few years later, when she sold her company to PepsiCo for a reported $250 million. A social worker by training, Stacy founded Stacy's Pita Chips with ex-husband Marc Andrus in 1997. By the time the brand was acquired in 2006, its products were distributed nationally and generating $65 million in annual revenue. In an interview included in this episode, Madison explained that the story of how her namesake chips became a grocery staple h...