How the late Bob's Red Mill founder avoided selling out to a food giant and instead transferred ownership to his 700 employees
How the late Bob's Red Mill founder avoided selling out to a food giant and instead transferred ownership to his 700 employees
Bob Moore, who died Saturday, said large corporations tried to buy out Bob's Red Mill, but he transferred complete ownership to his employees.
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Bob Moore sounds like he was a good dude. If more business leaders thought like him we'd all be a lot better off.
Sells good steel cut oats
I'm worried it's the end of an era. They have really high quality product, all of it!
Could use more organic, though
But that's the point: that level of wealth and power is unhealthy. For literally everyone. We can't just hope more of these insanely privileged people resist corruption and greed to do the right thing and treat their employees fairly (more than fairly, in this case). He was a good dude all right, but a huge exception to the overwhelming norm of wealthy people exploiting their workers...