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Jerry Greenfield on entrepreneurship at Oberlin (live blogging)

Ben & Jerry took a correspondence course to learn how to make ice cream, and opened shop for the first time in May 1978. Then winter came, and people stopped buying ice cream. Jerry describes himself as the least creative and entrepreneurial person he knows -- it's all been Ben -- but he then came up with the company's best marketing idea ever:
PODCBZE. Percent off per degree celsius below zero.

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