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GS Griffin Spolansky On The Startup CPG Podcast

“The outsider's perspective is the bigger you get, the easier it gets, or maybe the less you get punched. And that's 100% not true. … The punches are bigger. The stakes are higher. Whether you're a $20 million brand, a $40 million brand, $100 million brand, I think everyone can attest to that.”

The Startup CPG Podcast · Alternative Proteins · November 2026

“The outsider's perspective is the bigger you get, the easier it gets, or maybe the less you get punched. And that's 100% not true. … The punches are bigger. The stakes are higher. Whether you're a $20 million brand, a $40 million brand, $100 million brand, I think everyone can attest to that.” — Griffin Spolansky, The Startup CPG Podcast

Context

The host compared being a founder to a boxer who keeps taking hits. The founder extends the metaphor: scale doesn't make the job easier, just different.

Transcript

The Startup CPG Podcast Around 17:36 into the episode
Griffin Spolansky

…thing about entrepreneurship is in a day or a week, you can get hit in the face like 100 times and literally feel like you're going to break down. But in the same week, you can also have like some of the biggest wins. So I do think that's like pretty interesting to think about for sure as well.

Hannah Dittman

…But I think being a founder is being a boxer in a ring. And it's like, how many hits can you take? And you're still going to come back out. You know, you're outsized. You know, you're outmatched. And you're still just going to stand there and be like, cool, hit me then. I will survive. And it's

Griffin Spolansky

funny because I think the outsider's perspective is the bigger you get, the easier it gets. Or like maybe the less you get punched, right? And that's 100% not true. And I think everyone can attest to that.

Hannah Dittman

No, and the punches are bigger.

Griffin Spolansky

Exactly. The punches are bigger, right? The stakes are higher. I think everyone can attest to that, whether you're a $20 million brand, a $40 million brand, $100 million brand. So I think that's always funny because every time I speak to someone now starting a business, it's always like, oh, it…

Hannah Dittman

Yeah, you went featherweight to heavyweight and the hits still hurt. I

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