
They Started a Side Hustle in Their College Dorm and Bootstrapped Their Way to a Massive Business: 'It's Always Been About Being Scrappy'
Dan Bova
created: May 20, 2025, 5:50 p.m. | updated: May 21, 2025, 4:58 p.m.
Gonanas is a banana bread mix that is made with better-for-you ingredients, like oat flour instead of enriched wheat flour, and it is free of the top allergens.
My business partner, Annie Slabotsky, and I started this company in 2019 when we were in the college dorms at the University of Michigan.
I grew up eating banana bread, and so we used a family recipe with a healthier twist on it.
They were looking for a banana bread mix during COVID, and they found us on social media when we just had a few thousand followers and a website.
We want to be the number one baking brand, the modern-day Betty Crocker, changing the way people bake.
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