I am Joey van Koningsbruggen, I founded a food production company that sold 1,5 million meals this year.
Hey,
I am Joey van Koningsbruggen. I am 26 years old and live in Amsterdam, Holland.
I founded food production company Joylent in 2014. It sold 3.4 million meals in 93 countries up until now
It started with an experiment in 2014 whereby I lived exclusively on my own recipe that made up 100% of all recommended daily nutrients. The experiment lasted 30 days and it was a great succes because it actually worked! A lot of friends wanted in on it and started using my product too, which they jokingly called Joeylent. When vice wrote an article http://www.vice.com/read/this-drugdealer-turned-artist-has-the-european-alternative-to-soylent-704
on me that went viral it turned big. Netting me hundreds of customers. Which made that I had too scale from my dorm room two years a go to the production company with a 2000m2 factory with 38 employees that is now has. I often make video's about the progress of production and research and development on Youtube:
We have a great community on social networks and hate that we have to pay to reach them via Facebook. What I might dislike even more is when social media platforms do not support free speech. For example when Twitter bans conservatives. I therefore like the idea of Steem.
Thanks for this wonderful community.
Country:
Netherlands
Just had one of these!
Welcome. I think you'll need a longer introduction if you want to get many votes. Please see some of the others as possible models.
Thanks for the response :D. Do you know how I can add a photo?
You need to upload photos to a hosting site then copy and paste url into body of post.
thanks!
Steemimg.com is easy to set up and use. You can choose to make a profile or just upload anonymously. Also the creator said they will always keep content up so it won't disappear
I agree with @steemship. I love the product you have created, but I'd like to know more about you before you go on to promote an item. When you gain a bit more of a following maybe you can offer your bars via steem dollars and negotiate shipping. I would make your text longer in this post or put together a new introduce yourself post. I love the title, but was not as impressed with the content as I was the title. Hope this advice helps you and you have success here!
Thanks. I updated it!
Definitely a great improvement! Comments are really important to take seriously 😀
Ok I was putting this off until I had more followers but now , taking interest in a business I feel might be worth promoting, I will have to do my dissertation on non-exploitative employer employee relationships, just so I can see where you stand in that area. Will post link in replies to this Or one of your future posts
Let me know what you think about this and striving to work towards such a model.
https://steemit.com/anarchy/@christowner/the-non-exploitative-employer-employee-relationships
Hey, I have read your post and completely disagree. No one should have to give equity. It should be voluntary and based on market offering. If someone is worth a lot to a start up but costs too much a equity deal could be made. Which already occurs often.
I was not saying employers should be forced to give equity, I'm saying that if they are not trying to exploit the employee the moral thing to do is either pay them the lions share of profits generated by their prouction, or equity that offsets putting some of that back into the business, keeping employer profits off of the labor of employees minimal, voluntarily!
I am all for voluntary interactions. I don't think it would make sense to give them the lion share of the profit. In my example I actually made an agreement with early employees that they would get paid less than market value so that we could invest more into the company. Without investors it is really important to have the liquidity needed to scale up; place larger orders, pay for production equipment etc. if my employees would get a lion part of the profit it would have totally destroyed my company. I would not be able to produce as much as was being asked. Even now 2 years later I never pay myself a share of the profit. I have a normal salary. The rest is going back into the company.
So you believe that all but the lowest possible wage an employee will accept under the duress of not being able to meet their basic needs if they do not accept the employers terms, should go to enriching the employer?
Cool to see you here Joey. I don't know you personally but I'm also from the Netherlands so I came across your name many times. Really nice work with Joylent sir.
For those of you that don't know the story of Joey, google his name in combination with 'drug dealer' :)
Cool! Thanks Paul. Het is fantastisch om een gedecentraliseerde social medium te hebben.
Does anyone know why I can't edit this post? I want to upload this picture http://imgur.com/a/hbFsM