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Ben Cohen Biography
Ben Cohen is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on March 18, 1951 in Brooklyn, NY, New York State, United States.
American entrepreneur, activist, philanthropist, and co-founder of ice cream company Ben and Jerry’s with Jerry Greenfield.
He and Alec Baldwin both graduated from New York University.
Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the town of Merrick, New York on Long Island by Jewish parents Frances and Irving.
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Cohen first met and befriended his future business partner Jerry Greenfield in a seventh grade gym class in 1963. In his senior year, Cohen found work as an ice cream man before leaving to attend Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
In 1977, Cohen decided to go into business with his old friend Jerry Greenfield, and in May of the next year, the two men opened Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream Parlor in Burlington, Vermont.
They initially intended to start a bagel business, but