Viewer discretion is advised. This episode includes sensitive conversations about childhood adversity, trauma, addiction, abuse, faith, business stress, and difficult family experiences.
In this episode of Hidden Foundations, Kendall sits down with Doug Taylor of Taylor Chip to explore the family, faith, pressure, and grit behind building a cookie company from scratch. Doug shares how he and his wife started Taylor Chip with a $50 mixer in a 900-square-foot apartment, how Dave Portnoy’s Barstool review changed their e-commerce momentum, and how the company grew across retail, manufacturing, nutrition products, and online sales.
Doug also opens up about his mother’s traumatic past, her sobriety, the stability created by adoption, and the belief system that shaped his own approach to entrepreneurship, fatherhood, leadership, and legacy. The conversation also includes important context that Taylor Chip has since gone bankrupt, and this episode is shared as a real look at the ambition, risk, pressure, mistakes, and humanity behind building a business.