ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What does it take to challenge a $93 billion industry — when you're 21 years old, studying entrepreneurship by day, and sourcing cacao from Africa by night?
In this episode of Tomorrow's Bites, we sit down with Daniel Berlin, founder of DIRTY GUT — a gut-friendly chocolate brand built on a simple but radical premise: chocolate is actually healthy. It's just what a century of big food companies have done to it that isn't. Armed with four probiotic strains, three prebiotic fibers, coconut sugar, and a name so uncomfortable it's impossible to forget, Daniel is coming for the legacy brands — the ones making "milk chocolate" with 11% cacao and calling it food.
He started this at 21. He's 22 now. He already has paying customers, a co-manufacturer, direct relationships with ethically sourced cacao farms in Africa, and an investor meeting scheduled for right after this conversation.
We explore:
- Why a Hershey bar is legally allowed to contain only 11% cacao — and what that says about a century of consumer deception in the chocolate aisle
- How Daniel built his first advisor network entirely through cold emails sent from a college student address — and why most of them said yes
- The name nobody wanted: why "DIRTY GUT" was rejected, ignored, and then impossible to get out of his head — just like Liquid Death
- Why chocolate is actually one of the best delivery mechanisms for live probiotics — and why most probiotic supplements on the market barely work
- What the Olipop and Poppi playbook looks like applied to chocolate — and whether the category is ready for the same shift that happened to soda
- Why he's managing a multi-continent ingredient supply chain from an Excel sheet — and what he's building to replace it this summer
And much more...
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😊 The Guest: Daniel Berlin
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