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Jason Burke

Jason Burke

Founder and CEO of New Primal, a clean-label meat snack brand in Charleston, SC, and guest on CPG podcasts like Behind The Shelf and The Story of a Brand Show.

Sep 2, 2026

23:13
And you have the years and the experience of building this business to have probably changed how you think on that front.
23:20
So you just hit that.
23:21
I mean, you just articulated it so beautifully.
23:24
It's so much better than I could, but it's exactly right.
23:27
No, I had to learn that.
23:29
And because I've been in it long and this long, I've also seen the tides kind of shift in the industry.
23:37
So when I started, there was a thesis that was if you have a good product idea or a good category idea and you can go be disruptive, you can chase top line revenue for a few years.
27:44
How now did the lunchbox become the growth strategy?
16:53
What do you think actually has very little connection to whether or not that product is going to succeed?
16:59
Well, I think that group that you just referenced on the whole is certainly not, I'll just speak broadly about that group.
17:06
I think they get hung up on temporary trends a lot.
17:10
There was a big movement for plant-based meat a few years ago.
17:14
And they convinced all the investors that this was the next movement.
17:18
This is where you got to put all your money.
17:19
I think Beyond Meat raised over a billion dollars or some stupid number.
19:08
How do you identify that movement? What were some of the indicators to you 15 years ago that protein was going to be something that you wanted to capitalize on?

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