The inventor of the best new Vegan protein bar is a kid
when you start a company at 18 years old town to own a vehicle and need to get to meetings
with the largest health and nutrition companies in the country
you have a bit of a problem
you can't legally rent a car
likely Daniel Katz found a weird loophole can ski doesn't have an age restriction as long as you're willing to drive one of their big
yellow rigs around I literally pull up in a huge yellow truck says Katz and not a small truck
either like the 25 foot industrial one that white is a teen who just turned the right to vote
let alone drive a car having of port and client meetings with large food industry giants in the first place
I've created the healthiest protein bar ever Katz says
that may sound like a bold statement
especially from a cocky kid
but if the three million dollars cats just ways to finance his two month old company DS naturals is testimony a lot of people agree
why are investors throwing a ton of cash to add a kid
only because Katz has concocted something that hasn't existed before in a highly lucrative and competitive energy bar market his flagship
know Cal bar is a dairy free Soifer a Vegan creation that's ridiculously high in fiber and protein
akin to the immensely popular quest bar but without any possibly offensive whey protein or artificial sweeteners
instead no Cal relies on a mixture of rice and pea proteins making a complete protein source made suite by natural monk fruit extract study a
and airy through tall a sugar alcohol
according to cats the bar has the highest amount of plant based protein 20 g in the 170 calories serving
of any bar on store shelves
in the protein bar market today I wouldn't even consider half of the products to be protein bars
there just candy bars with a little bit of protein says Katz
no Cal bar of course
what drives a kid to create a protein bar and not a candy bar
in the first place hopefully says something about changing trends in society
while katz's friends at his high school in Cincinnati were clamoring for processed goodies out of the hallway vending machines
he was pulling out Tupperware's full of grilled chicken with steamed broccoli and rice to munch on in the middle of class
as part of his nutrition regimen as a football player he calls it the bodybuilder diet cats needed a healthy protein bar that was also
dairy free to accommodate his lactose intolerance
there just weren't any out there he sat
so he made one except
it's not that simple to fashion a shelf stable
truly healthy snack that's ready for Nationwide distribution
to understand how Lunn 18 year old pulled it off you need to know a few things about Daniel Katz number one
he started his fist company at age 12 using creeks list to trade his clunky flip phone for
better models until he had the sleekest brand on the market
I didn't spend any money
Katz says my dad would drive me to me strangers while I traded them for phone with slightly better features
so you can see what kind of shoestring budget entrepreneurial attitude were dealing with here
number two he graduated high school a year early promising his parents eat attend college if
they agreed to finance his entrepreneurial ventures
after three months at Indiana university the day before the drought have deadline
Katz called his parents to tell them he wanted to move to Los Angeles and start a company I told them
this is what I want to do in life this is the only thing that makes me happy
he sat they agreed
and let him move across the country to launch the business
number three he loves to fail
it means I learn something he sat
in Los Angeles cats hired can tractors to help him formulate and sell an amino acid fortified energy drink
when the product was finally ready for distribution
he found out and missing recycle code on the packaging made it illegal to sell on California shelves
sure the business failed spectacularly
but Katz says the contacts he made and his exposure to the health market were invaluable in his next venture
DS naturals number four he's probably got more moxie than you what works best for me in business is to act bigger than you are
Katz says OK back seat to an 18 year old just taken
cats moved back to Cincinnati after his healthy drink idea folded in 2014
that's when he plotted the idea for the no Cal bar one night at his apartment
heading straight to the resource any enterprising teen needs google
he searched for dairy free protein bars that the results were sparse either the bars had too much sugar
or too little protein it's challenging to pack plant based protein into a bar without dairy and still make it taste good
most of the Brands cats found relied on artificial sweeteners
something he refused to do
the solution came when he found a compound
called Isa mall to liga sack can ride or I mow for short I'm a lizard naturally occurring
that difficult to digest plant fiber
in acts like a sweetener while preventing your body from absorbing carbohydrates
basically it can make plant based protein taste good without needing to add any sugar
I mow has been generally recognized as safe by the FDA
if that helps you sleep better at night
cats isn't a food scientist
but he figured if he could get his hands on im oh he could tinker with a basic recipe for his bar
so he called up distributors and pretended like he owned a big company when all he really
had at that point were some tax forms and a name its little things like saying way he sat
saying we instead of eye makes it sound like we have 50 employees when really the company is just me
taxed jury rigged the first batch in his kitchen
it was awful he admits
that while consistency was often the taste might have been a little funky
he met all his nutritional targets
from there he was able to pass it off to a team of natural foods experts who could finalize the recipe
it probably took 90 times before it was correct and to my liking
Katz says fast forward three months and ease naturals now has deals with national clients
including your rope a sports products a multimillion dollar round of financing
and a warehouse in Cincinnati with nearly 150,000 bars tax plans to expand his focus beyond bars in true entrepreneurial fashion
he won't reveal what's next that promises it will be the next innovation in natural food is in's to Graham hands at something called fluff butter
my goal is to become the fastest growing natural food company of all time
he sat to do that he sleeps less than 4 hours a night on an air mattress in his office
that is the no cow bar spreads Nationwide hunt says it's all worth it
the good thing about being young has that I have plenty years ahead of me to relax have
and that's the one place where Daniel Katz may be proven wrong
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