Episode
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mar 16, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
For decades, a dozen eggs was just… a dozen eggs. No story. No real branding. No reason to care who produced them. Then Matt O’Hayer came along and asked a question almost nobody in America was asking: what if store-bought eggs could be different? What if they tasted better, looked better, and came from hens raised in a much more humane way? The business he launched– with 20 hens and some used…