Company profile
- Industry
- Plant-based food producer / manufacturing
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- El Segundo, United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded (NASDAQ: BYND)
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Decisions on record
2 verified Decision Cases on Beyond Meat, and the casebook each one belongs to.
| Fork date | Decision type | What Beyond Meat chose | Where it stood | The story | Casebook |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Bet-the-Company | Scale into peak demand | The stock had fallen over 99% from its IPO-era peak (2025) | Read the story → | Bet-the-Company Casebook → |
| 2022 | The Counterfactual | Conclude test, no rollout | fell 9.8% to $418.9 million, with a net loss of $366.1 million and a gross margin of negative 5.7% (2022) | Read the story → | The Counterfactual Casebook → |
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The analyses
The Counterfactual · Decision Forks
The McPlant Test Was Designed to Say No. The Numbers Just Confirmed It.
Everyone read the McPlant's quiet exit as a marketing miss or a Beyond Meat stumble. It was neither. At roughly 20 sandwiches a day in San Francisco and 3-5 a day in rural Texas, the test wasn't a failure - it was a demand signal working exactly as the franchisees intended.
8 min
The Category Creator · Decision Forks
Beyond Meat Won the Race and Lost the War. It Created a Category for Someone Else to Own.
Beyond Meat's 163% first-day pop in 2019 looked like proof of demand. It was proof of sentiment. Revenue peaked at $464.7M in 2021, fell more than 40% to $275.5M by 2025, and the losses topped $1 billion - because the company built a category, not a customer.
8 min
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