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CHOCOLATE BUSINESS SUCCESS STORY
- At 19, Udaipur teen builds Rs 1 crore chocolate brand. How his business sells 2 tonnes of chocolate made from fruits and spicesAt just 19, Digvijay Singh from Udaipur turned his chocolate-making passion into a successful brand named Saraam during the challenges of t...
Ferrero sees India entering top 10 global markets, bets on premiumisation, ramps up product launchesFerrero sees India as a key market, expecting its growth in the premium chocolate segment. The company aims for sustainable growth, expandi...- Meet Jamie Siminoff, who spent his last $20,000 on a Shark Tank pitch but got rejected; how he went on to sell Ring to Amazon for $1 billion; know his career journeySiminoff appeared on reality show Shark Tank in 2013 to seek funding for Doorbot. He asked investors for $700,000 in exchange for a 10% sta...
- Layoffs pushed Renee Rubens to rethink her career. She turned tea gifts into a business bringing in up to $30,000 a monthRenee Rubens turned her interest in premium loose-leaf tea into Symphony of Leaves Tea Company after years in corporate media sales and thr...
- What’s haunting Halloween chocolate? The climate pressures behind Halloween’s sweetest traditionHalloween chocolate connects American shoppers with cocoa-growing communities in West Africa. Heat and crop disease can disrupt harvests, b...
- Meet Lukas Biewald, who lost his CEO role at his first startup; how an unpaid internship at OpenAI helped him build an AI company behind a karate studio that sold for $1.7 billionAfter reportedly leaving the CEO role, Lukas Biewald felt that he needed to strengthen his technical knowledge as deep learning advanced. H...
- Meet Joe Demin and Rachel Connors, a couple who started selling hammocks in 2011; here's how their side hustle crossed $30 million in salesJoe Demin was travelling to Thailand in 2011 when they came across a soft, handwoven hammock. It was different from the rough products they...
- Meet Casey Ferrand McGee, former reporter who spent five hours a week on a side hustle that nearly matched her $60,000 salary; how she built a business after 14 years in TV newsCasey Ferrand McGee is the founder of CFM Media. It is a media coaching, public relations and communications consultancy based in New Orlea...
- Meet Doug McMillon, who unloaded Walmart trucks as a teenager in 1984; 30 years later, he became CEO of the retail giantMcMillon graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He returned to Walmart in 1...
- Meet Ryan Deiss, who started an online business with just $500 in 1999; how he built DigitalMarketer and grew his digital marketing empireRyan Deiss was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. He started building basic websites for clients who wer...
- Meet Phil Knight, Nike co-founder who sold shoes from his car trunk in 1964, 61 years later, he and his wife pledged $2 billion to a cancer institutePhil Knight was a runner at the University of Oregon and later studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business. While studying there, he lo...
- Meet Mahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed, two Egyptian founders who built a text-to-speech tool; their voice AI startup was later acquired by MetaMahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed are the founders of PlayAI. Both of them Egyptian entrepreneurs who had previously worked at Dubai-based cla...
- In 2016, AJ launched Carrd with just $500; by 2024, his one-page website builder was estimated to generate $1.5 million a yearAJ defines Carrd as a platform which allows people to create simple and single-page websites. Notably, people do not need to have coding sk...
- Meet Hannah Pollack, a former marine who spent $20 on an ice cream sandwich side hustle in 2016; 10 years later, her business was making $3 million a monthPollack and Xavier worked on the business. They started making ice cream sandwiches for just $20. Usually, this is not a very big investmen...
- Meet Joe Popelas, who started an AI ebook business with just $500; two years later, it was valued at more than $1 millionHis journey began soon after he graduated from high school in 2020. By then, he had already explored how to use GPT-3 and also create the b...
- Meet Ali Partovi, man who bet on young talent and backed Cursor and Kalshi; his $150 million Neo fund reached $1.2 billion in value by the end of 2025Partovi is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He founded Neo in 2017. He had earlier invested in technology companies, which included Face...
- Meet Becky DeGrossa, who left IBM after 20 years to become a therapist, her side business hit $2 million in revenueDeGrossa is the founder of CounselingWise. It is a marketing agency that helps therapists grow their practices through websites, search eng...
- Meet Samantha and Kevin Dwoskin, couple who started a mac-and-cheese side hustle in 2023; about 20 months later, Boss Cow had crossed $1 million in annual revenueThe couple used their personal experiences with food. Kevin had worked as a banking regulatory compliance consultant for 11 years. He had r...
- Meet Leena Pettigrew, IT analyst whose houseplant hobby made $148,600 in a year from her garage while she kept her full-time jobHer journey into the plant business began as a hobby. Pettigrew and her husband, Marquise, were redecorating their home in 2022. They wante...
- Meet Jim Yu, who co-founded BrightEdge with just $5,000 in 2007; by 2025, the SEO software company was generating an estimated $100 million a yearJim Yu made his own path and achieved success. Despite not having a huge amount of money initially, Yu started his business. He co-founded ...
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