EE 410 - How This Irish Founder Took On the Opioid Crisis—and rang the NASDAQ Bell - Gareth Sheridan Story

In this episode of The Entrepreneur Experiment, Gary Fox sits down with Gareth Sheridan, the relentless founder and CEO of Nutriband Inc — a pharmaceutical company tackling one of the most controversial issues in modern medicine: opioid misuse. What started as a college thesis and a dining room stacked with questionable Chinese vitamin patches has since become a NASDAQ-listed company pioneering safer drug delivery systems.

 

Gareth walks us through his raw, rollercoaster journey — from painting houses to fund his dream, to being duped in a million-dollar pump-and-dump scheme, and how he clawed his way back to ring the NASDAQ bell on October 1st with $6.6 million in fresh funding.

 

If you're an entrepreneur with ambition (and a high pain tolerance), this episode will teach you about resilience, smart capital strategy, and how to build billion-dollar businesses the hard way — brick by brick, and patch by patch.

 

🎧 Show Notes: In this episode, we cover:

💊 The origin story of Nutriband: from a college idea to fighting the opioid crisis

🚗 Why Gareth was a millionaire on paper but driving for Uber in Florida

 🏥 How transdermal patches can replace pills and even injections

💸 Getting duped: the brutal truth about OTC markets and a $1.5M illusion

 🧠 Learning to think like a public company CEO (before even listing)

🔁 Why he rebuilt the same company… twice

🧱 Gareth’s unique strategy: acquiring IP and talent using stock instead of cash

🛑 How he said no to $80 million in funding offers — and why

🔔 Manifesting the NASDAQ bell: “It was never if, only when.”

⚖️ The shady side of Wall Street: naked shorts, phantom trades, and SEC investigations

 📈What it takes to build a billion-dollar business the unconventional way

🔗 Links & Resources: Nutriband: https://www.nutriband.com/

 Follow Gareth Sheridan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garethsheridanntrb/

 Watch the GameStop story: Dumb Money (IMDb): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13957560/

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