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Kathleen King was forty years old when she lost everything.

She had spent two decades building Kathleen=E2=80=99s Bake Shop into a Long=
 Island institution. Her cookies were the gold standard. They were sold in =
high-end Manhattan grocery stores.=20

She was the local hero who made it big.

Then she made the mistake that kills thousands of small businesses: she bro=
ught in the wrong partners to help her scale.

The partnership was a nightmare from the start.=20

Her new partners saddled the company with debt that they used . . .  to pay=
 themselves back. They used the company checkbook like a personal ATM. They=
 started to run the business into the ground.

The breaking point came in the kitchen. The partners wanted to swap her pre=
mium, all-natural butter for cheap margarine to pad the margins. Kathleen r=
efused to compromise the product.

In response, they fired Kathleen from Kathleen=E2=80=99s Bake Shop.

## Locked Out

The new partners literally locked Kathleen out of her own bakery.=20

And even worse, because of the way the contracts were signed, she was legal=
ly banned from even using her own name to sell a single cookie. She was $20=
0,000 in debt and practically homeless, living in a small apartment above t=
he shop she no longer owned.

Imagine being a world-class baker who is legally prohibited from telling cu=
stomers who you are.=20

Most entrepreneurs would have spent the next decade in a courtroom. They wo=
uld have let the bitterness consume them. Kathleen chose a different path: =
She looked for a tactical loophole.

Through a brutal legal settlement, the one thing she managed to retain was =
the physical building in Southampton. But she still could not use her name =
nor could she use the branding people recognized.

## Starting Over at 40

Kathleen decided to start over from scratch (in more ways than one!) at the=
 age of 40. She renamed the shop after her father: Tate.

She did not try to win the brand war. She knew her old partners were destro=
ying the Kathleen brand by cutting quality and she would let them fail.

Instead, from the very start, she focused on creating a business that could=
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Kathleen developed a way to mass-produce a cookie that was thin, crispy, an=
d tasted exactly like it came off a cooling rack at a farm stand. She focus=
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She then turned that delicious recipe into a scalable, industrial system th=
at could not be ignored, focusing on the one thing the partners could not s=
teal: The quality of the bake.

Sales boomed.

## The Yummy Result

A few years later, after being fired and left for dead, Kathleen sold Tate=
=E2=80=99s Bake Shop to Mondelez, the owners of Oreo.

The price?

A tasty $500 million.


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## The Takeaway

Kathleen King survived because she realized that while her partners owned h=
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32px;color:#2A2A2A;padding:2px 0;line-height:38px;"> Fired From Her Own Bak=
ery at 40, She Sold Her Next One for Millions </h1><p style=3D"text-align:l=
eft;font-family:'Helvetica',Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;font-size:2=
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ly barred from using her own name! </p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td>=
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padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style=3D"mso-li=
ne-height-alt:150.0%;"> The partnership was a nightmare from the start. </p=
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xt-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style=3D"mso-line-height-alt:150.0=
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ss=3D"dd" align=3D"left" style=3D"padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-bre=
ak:break-word;"><p style=3D"mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> The breaking poin=
t came in the kitchen. The partners wanted to swap her premium, all-natural=
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ise the product. </p></td></tr><tr><td class=3D"dd" align=3D"left" style=3D=
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0.0%;">Locked Out</h2></td></tr><tr><td class=3D"dd" align=3D"left" style=
=3D"padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style=3D"ms=
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o-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> And even worse, because of the way the contract=
s were signed, she was legally banned from even using her own name to sell =
a single cookie. She was $200,000 in debt and practically homeless, living =
in a small apartment above the shop she no longer owned. </p></td></tr><tr>=
<td class=3D"dd" align=3D"left" style=3D"padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;w=
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ng:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style=3D"mso-line-he=
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d" align=3D"left" style=3D"padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:brea=
k-word;"><p style=3D"mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Instead, from the very s=
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crispy, and tasted exactly like it came off a cooling rack at a farm stand.=
 She focused on shelf stability and distribution. </p></td></tr><tr><td cla=
ss=3D"dd" align=3D"left" style=3D"padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-bre=
ak:break-word;"><p style=3D"mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> She then turned t=
hat delicious recipe into a scalable, industrial system that could not be i=
gnored, focusing on the one thing the partners could not steal: The quality=
 of the bake. </p></td></tr><tr><td class=3D"dd" align=3D"left" style=3D"pa=
dding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style=3D"mso-line=
-height-alt:150.0%;"> Sales boomed. </p></td></tr><tr><td class=3D"dd" alig=
n=3D"left" valign=3D"top" style=3D"color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;padding:0=
px 15px;text-align:left;"><h2 style=3D"color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;mso-l=
ine-height-alt:150.0%;">The Yummy Result</h2></td></tr><tr><td class=3D"dd"=
 align=3D"left" style=3D"padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-=
word;"><p style=3D"mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> A few years later, after b=
eing fired and left for dead, Kathleen sold Tate=E2=80=99s Bake Shop to Mon=
delez, the owners of Oreo. </p></td></tr><tr><td class=3D"dd" align=3D"left=
" style=3D"padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p styl=
e=3D"mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> The price? </p></td></tr><tr><td class=
=3D"dd" align=3D"left" style=3D"padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break=
:break-word;"><p style=3D"mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> A tasty $500 millio=
n. </p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class=3D"dd" a=
lign=3D"left" style=3D"padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-wo=
rd;"><p style=3D"mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"></p></td></tr><tr><td><table =
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align=3D"left" style=3D"padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-w=
ord;"><p style=3D"mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0, =
0, 0);font-size:medium;font-weight:400;">Kathleen King survived because she=
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ts, her experience, her skills. </span></p></td></tr><tr><td class=3D"dd" a=
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rd;"><p style=3D"mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0, 0=
, 0);font-size:medium;font-weight:400;">We all hit roadblocks. But they onl=
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t-size:medium;font-weight:400;">That=E2=80=99s where the treasure is!</span=
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