Hexclad: Danny Winer

We would literally Line up boxes in Cole's back yard. And we'd run down a line and I'd be like twelve inch pan, twelve inch pan, twelve inch pan. Hand packaging. Hand packaging them. To save money. And then we'd be like taping'em.

Closed and we had We had so many papercuts on our fingers. That's it. There were sometimes would be little blood spots on the on the box, and we would have to take windex and go back and clean the blood off the top of the box, and we would drive them to the Costco. To sell them.

Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. They built. I'm Guy Roz and on the show today, how Danny Weiner grew hexclad from a backyard business into a five hundred million dollar cookware company. In just under ten years. Anything you use to cook food, pots pans, Dutch ovens, they're part of a$73 billion global industry known as cookware.

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