How come there are no financials available? The company has been in business for many years. To me that seems like a major red flag.

Hi Thomas, This crowdfunding campaign is to open a bunch of stores and to manufacture the inventory for the new stores, which includes buying and processing cacao in Peru, making chocolate, and then making our products. The new stores will be owned by a separate, brand-new entity. The compliance team at Wefunder explicitly told me that we could not post any financial results for our existing entity because it doesn't apply to the raise we are doing. I initially posted those numbers but then t...

Is your chocolate vegan, and your whole shop?

Hi Stefan, The entire shop is not vegan, but our dark chocolate is, and we have a ton of vegan products. Thanks for the question. Adam

It would be helpful to clarify the relationship between the existing corporation and the newly formed entity that this raise is for. Will the new entity buy product from the existing entity or set up the entire supply chain, including having their own kitchen and chefs? If the...

Thank you for the feedback, Thomas. Most of the people who are investing are customers and subscribers to our daily newsletter. I wrote a long, detailed explanation answering all of these questions. The new entity will not sell online for the time being. It will be strictly retail. We have learned that e-commerce is not the best model for us going forward, for a whole bunch of reasons. The new entity will not be buying products from the existing entity except for maybe in the first month. The...

How do you make money here if you invest?

Hi Orestes, We will either pay out dividends, sell the company in the future, or take on additional equity with a higher valuation in the future. Let me know if that answers your question. Best, Adam

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We buy a rare and delicious variety of cacao directly from cacao farmers in northern Peru.

We know everything we need to know. We know how to make the products and do all the marketing.

We've already been in this business for 16 years. We know what we are doing.

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