After graduating from UC Davis, I had a calling to serve our country," Barrick told Entrepreneur. "And so around 2005, I joined one of the most difficult branches of the military, the Marine Corps.
It was very challenging and scary," he says of his time teaching elite pilots. "You strap on two rockets every other day and you're instructing a new student - it's very dangerous.
When Barrick connected with Harold Schmitz and Ralph Jerome, former executives at Mars, he felt that familiar desire to do something bigger. He listened to their dream of bringing affordable nutrition to the food market and it was the catalyst he needed to branch out and "start something from zero.
Along with Schmitz, Jerome and Victor Friedberg, Miguel Reyna and Ilias Tagkopoulos, he co-founded the snack Rivalz. The bite-sized crunchy-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside snacks are packed with 8g protein, 4g fiber, and 7 essential vitamins.
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