Boston Beer Company chairman Jim Koch
Samuel Adams brewer Jim Koch delivered the opening keynote speech at Brau Beviale 2014 and enthused about the sheer variety of craft beer appearing on the US market.
You can read more about it in this article. Koch said he started his company with $230,000 and one staff member, a woman called Rhonda, naming his beer after American revolutionary Sam Adams: “My original plan was to brew for five years and get to 6,000 hectoliters and then stop growing. That plan failed, but luckily it failed in the right way!” he said.