Bobo’s CEO: Investor returns, pressure to grow make sale inevitable 

BOULDER — Bobo’s Oat Bars CEO TJ McIntyre was hired in 2016 to lead the company through a period of significant growth. That growth — which required venture capital investment — has outpaced expectations, leaving company leaders reckoning with the notion that sooner or later a sale to a larger entity within the foods/consumer-packaged goods sector will be necessary to facilitate Bobo’s next growth spurt.

“Like every business in this industry, we’ve raised capital from venture capital firms. That capital has to be returned at some point — they didn’t just place it in here to sit forever,” McIntyre…