Building a Startup without a network & sharing what I learn along the way.
I break down how brands grow, shift, and lose their edge, and share what it looks like from actually building in the CPG space.
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Built for a generation that finally stopped waiting for permission.
Liquid Death made water loud, but can that last?
No angels. No VC intros. Just a story people believed in.
The supplement industry finally caught up to this brand.
Built for hospitals. Found its way to 7-Eleven.
A family recipe. Six years. $400 million. No shortcuts.
One aisle. One buyer. One blind spot.
Olive oil never had a squeeze bottle. Nobody thought it needed one.
Gut health got its soda. Now protein has one.
A family built it for their table. The world pulled up a chair.
It tastes like a candy bar. That's the whole strategy.
The aisle said men. The buyer said otherwise.
Everyone else is selling collagen. This one isn't.
Half the market was there the whole time.
It's beef jerky. They just refused to call it that.
