
Vital Farms
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
- Published
- March 23, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 8m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Apr 17, 2026
Discusses business.
Summary
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…
Show notes
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 trailers– is now the number-one pasture-raised egg producer in the US, with a network of 600 farms, and a
Themes
- business