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How I Built This with Guy Raz — Banza: Brian Rudolph. The Chickpea Pasta That Nearly Turned to Mush
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Banza: Brian Rudolph. The Chickpea Pasta That Nearly Turned to Mush

How I Built This with Guy Raz · 872

Brian Rudolph started making chickpea pasta in his Detroit apartment because wheat made him feel sick. A decade later, Banza was in more than 25,000 stores, and today, it’s one of the most popular pasta brands in the country. Success was not automatic: The business barely got off the ground because the cooked pasta…

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