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What Is Jerry Greenfield's Net Worth? Jerry Greenfield is an American businessman, activist, and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $150 million. Greenfield is best known for being the co-founder (with Ben Cohen) of the Vermont-based ice cream company Ben Jerry's. They started Ben Jerry's with $8,000 in savings and a $4,000 bank loan. Since opening their first shop in the late '70s, Ben Jerry's has expanded to more than 600 shops. Today Ben Jerry's earns roughly $700 million annually. In 2000, the company was purchased by the food giant Unilever for $326 million. At that point, annual earnings were $237 million. In 1995, Greenfield and Cohen created the Ben Jerry's Foundation, a social justice organization that was established to "fund organizations here in Vermont and around the country that are working for progressive social change." In 1988, Ben and Jerry were named U.S. Small Business Persons of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The duo has published the books "Ben Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream Dessert Book" (1987) and "Ben Jerry's Double Dip: How to Run a Values Led Business and Make Money Too" (1997). Early Life Jerry Greenfield was born on March 14, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York. He is from a Jewish family, and he was raised on Long Island. Jerry met Ben Cohen in a middle school gym class in 1963, and they both attended Sanford H. Calhoun High School. After graduating from high school, Greenfield enrolled at Ohio's Oberlin College, where he studied a pre-med curriculum and worked in the cafeteria as an ice cream scooper. He graduated in 1973 but didn't get into medical school, so he returned to New York and moved in with Cohen. Jerry took a job as a lab technician, and in 1974, he moved to North Carolina with his then-girlfriend Elizabeth Skarie after failing to get into medical school again. Career Greenfield and Cohen initially wanted to open a bagel shop, but after realizing how expensive the equipment was, they took an ice cream making course at Pennsylvania State University that cost $5. They opened Ben Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream Parlor in May 1978, and their first location was in the college town of Burlington, Vermont, which didn't have an ice cream shop. Ben and Jerry each put in $4,000 to start the business, and they got a $4,000 bank loan as well. Cohen suffers from anosmia, which limits his taste and smell, and this led to the signature chunks Ben and Jerry's ice cream is known for. He told "Delish" in 2021, "When Jerry and I first started creating the flavors [in the 1970s], he'd give me something to taste. He'd say, 'Well, how do you like it?' I said, 'It's good. But I can't tell what flavor it is.' So he would just keep on adding more flavoring until I could guess." Scott Gries/Getty Images In 1980, Greenfield and Cohen began selling pints of their ice cream in grocery stores, and by 1987, the company was worth $30 million. The first franchised Ben Jerry's shop opened in 1981 in Shelburne, Vermont, and as of 2019, there were 615 Ben Jerry's locations. The company is known for flavors such as Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream, Half Baked, Phish Food, Chunky Monkey, and Cherry Garcia, and they use ingredients that are fairtrade certified, non-GMO, and from Certified Humane cage-free farms. Since Unilever bought Ben Jerry's in 2000, Greenfield and Cohen have not been involved in management or operations of the company. In an interview with "The Boston Phoenix," Jerry stated, "We have no responsibility, no authority, and very little influence….It's very different. We're somewhat goodwill ambassadors for the company, which I like, because — and I think this is true for Ben — we both want to help promote the values of the company, not simply to sell more ice cream, but the other things that the company stands for and works for." Personal Life In the '80s, Greenfield left Ben Jerry's to move to Arizona with Skarie while she worked toward a Ph.D. in psychology, and after they moved back to Vermont in 1985, he became the company's Director of Mobile Promotions. Jerry and Elizabeth married in 1987, and they welcomed a son, Tyrone, the following year. Greenfield and Cohen are known for supporting social causes and philanthropic eff...
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