Kitchen Confidential (Season 3, Episode 6) by StartUp Podcast

Two men decide to start a company. Everything is going well...until it’s not. That’s the moment they decide to start recording their conversations—painful, awkward, emotional conversations.

Jason and Vincent launched Bento about a year ago. Their goal was to make Pan-Asian food fresh, tasty, and on-demand. They joined the food tech swell just as it was winding down, just as the funding was drying up, just as the smaller players were being weeded out. With only a year under their belt and a quickly draining bank account, Bento’s odds don’t look good. We listen in on the co-founders as they try to decide whether their setbacks are just bumps on the road to success or a sign to shut things down.