Who's Dan?

This is one way to describe me. But there are others, some of which I can even repeat here. I was born and raised in Vermont, which is currently the home of Dan's Chocolates. I started the company with my friend Jared Polis, determined to introduce people to really fresh chocolate, direct from the factory.

Now, I went to Princeton and studied electrical engineering. Lesson number one was that Princeton engineers are expected to become investment bankers, not chocolate makers. Whoops, that's the wrong link. I meant this. Lesson number two was that I really liked software, and I still like to do cool things with it.

But chocolate is soooo much more fun than making up Excel spreadsheets all day!

I don't hire any PR people to write this stuff, or anything else on this site. I am writing this on my laptop while eating a Caffeinator bar and drinking some wine at 11 PM.

As big corporations look for more and more ways to cut costs and quality, I am happily headed in the other direction with Dan's. Yes, we are doing some revolutionary things here, like using actual chocolate instead of flavored vegetable oil in our chocolate bars. And if you like the old-fashioned look of quality, take a gander.

In addition to introducing you to a whole bunch of fresh, crazy, chocolates, I hope this site helps you to learn a bunch of interesting things and spice up your day!

We have shipped chocolate to over 500,000 customers, and of those, 499,230 were pretty happy. The rest were livid because we screwed up the orders.

Just kidding about that last part. We took care of them.

Thanks for visiting, and come back soon.

Dan Cunningham Founder & Chief Chokolada