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Fix still sells its bars in two drops a day. You can't order one whenever you feel like it. Orders open at 2pm and 5pm on Careem, a delivery app in the UAE, and a bar costs about 68 dirhams, which is roughly $19. Fix moved to Careem from Deliveroo at the end of 2025, and the drops still go in minutes. Sarah Hamouda has kept that while the brand went worldwide. Fix ships from its Dubai kitchen to more than 100 countries, and there are two places you can walk in and buy one: Dubai airport, in Terminals 1 and 3, and Harrods in London, which started selling them in June 2026. Pistachios got more expensive while all this was going on. Prices hit about $4.57 a pound in March 2026, the highest in eight years, with war in Iran, drought, the crop's natural cycle and the pistachio dessert craze all pulling at once. Hamouda was making the bars herself at night four years ago, after work, wrapping each one by hand.
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Fix still sells its bars in two drops a day. You can't order one whenever you feel like it. Orders open at 2pm and 5pm on Careem, a delivery app in the UAE, and a bar costs about 68 dirhams, which is roughly $19. Fix moved to Careem from Deliveroo at the end of 2025, and the drops still go in minutes. Sarah Hamouda has kept that while the brand went worldwide. Fix ships from its Dubai kitchen to more than 100 countries, and there are two places you can walk in and buy one: Dubai airport, in Terminals 1 and 3, and Harrods in London, which started selling them in June 2026. Pistachios got more expensive while all this was going on. Prices hit about $4.57 a pound in March 2026, the highest in eight years, with war in Iran, drought, the crop's natural cycle and the pistachio dessert craze all pulling at once. Hamouda was making the bars herself at night four years ago, after work, wrapping each one by hand.
This guy made leather jackets in his garage and turned it into a $1.5 billion empire! In 1988, Richard Stark is a leather dealer who makes his own biker jackets in his Hollywood garage by night. Then a producer friend calls, needing costumes for a movie, and Richard takes the job. One of the actresses is dating Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. Jones tries on the jacket, loves it, and starts wearing it on stage. Then Mötley Crüe. Then Guns N' Roses. Suddenly Richard is riding his Harley around LA, dropping gear off at recording studios and rock shows. He walks into Cher's studio to sell her a $5,000 guitar strap, and she turns him down, but calls him back when she needs a leather jacket for her next music video. ✓ Hires his wife, Laurie Lynn, in 1994 to take over everything he hates, from the stores to the marketing to the sunglasses line ✓ Makes one rule: Chrome Hearts only sells in their own stores ✓ Keeps it out of every other retailer entirely ✓ Grows it into 36 boutiques across the world Biker jackets in a garage → a movie costume gig → rockstars wear it on stage → Cher becomes a customer → wife takes over the business → sells nowhere but their own stores → a $1.5 billion empire. Sometimes the power is in refusing to sell your product anywhere but your own doors. #Business #ChromeHearts #Fashion #Success #Entrepreneur
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This guy made leather jackets in his garage and turned it into a $1.5 billion empire! In 1988, Richard Stark is a leather dealer who makes his own biker jackets in his Hollywood garage by night. Then a producer friend calls, needing costumes for a movie, and Richard takes the job. One of the actresses is dating Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. Jones tries on the jacket, loves it, and starts wearing it on stage. Then Mötley Crüe. Then Guns N' Roses. Suddenly Richard is riding his Harley around LA, dropping gear off at recording studios and rock shows. He walks into Cher's studio to sell her a $5,000 guitar strap, and she turns him down, but calls him back when she needs a leather jacket for her next music video. ✓ Hires his wife, Laurie Lynn, in 1994 to take over everything he hates, from the stores to the marketing to the sunglasses line ✓ Makes one rule: Chrome Hearts only sells in their own stores ✓ Keeps it out of every other retailer entirely ✓ Grows it into 36 boutiques across the world Biker jackets in a garage → a movie costume gig → rockstars wear it on stage → Cher becomes a customer → wife takes over the business → sells nowhere but their own stores → a $1.5 billion empire. Sometimes the power is in refusing to sell your product anywhere but your own doors. #Business #ChromeHearts #Fashion #Success #Entrepreneur
Buying Barstool back for $1 came with a catch. Penn handed Dave Portnoy 100% of the company in August 2023 in return for promises that he wouldn't compete with it, and kept the right to half the gross proceeds if he ever sells Barstool again. Penn booked a loss of $800 million to $850 million on the way out. Portnoy's answer was that there will never be a sale to split. "I am NEVER going to sell Barstool Sports," he wrote. "I'II hold it 'til I die." Barstool was the thing he had given up a steady job for. He quit an $80,000 sales job to start it in 2003, with $30,000 of his own savings and a $20,000 loan from his dad. For the next six years he lived with his girlfriend's mother and drove the papers round Boston in a secondhand van. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
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Buying Barstool back for $1 came with a catch. Penn handed Dave Portnoy 100% of the company in August 2023 in return for promises that he wouldn't compete with it, and kept the right to half the gross proceeds if he ever sells Barstool again. Penn booked a loss of $800 million to $850 million on the way out. Portnoy's answer was that there will never be a sale to split. "I am NEVER going to sell Barstool Sports," he wrote. "I'II hold it 'til I die." Barstool was the thing he had given up a steady job for. He quit an $80,000 sales job to start it in 2003, with $30,000 of his own savings and a $20,000 loan from his dad. For the next six years he lived with his girlfriend's mother and drove the papers round Boston in a secondhand van. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
Anduril put nearly $1 billion of its own money into one factory. The factory is called Arsenal-1, in Ohio, and Anduril announced it in January 2025 to build its weapons at scale, starting with a combat drone called Fury. Production started in March 2026, ahead of the July date Anduril had first set, and the first Ohio-built Fury came off the line that July. That is how Anduril has worked from the start: spend its own money first, then sell something finished. Its border surveillance towers were tested with US Customs and Border Protection in 2019. In 2020 the agency made them an official program, and in June 2026 Anduril announced a $363 million order for more than 200 more. Presented by @usvcfund which helps broaden access to venture capital for U.S. investors starting at $500. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
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Anduril put nearly $1 billion of its own money into one factory. The factory is called Arsenal-1, in Ohio, and Anduril announced it in January 2025 to build its weapons at scale, starting with a combat drone called Fury. Production started in March 2026, ahead of the July date Anduril had first set, and the first Ohio-built Fury came off the line that July. That is how Anduril has worked from the start: spend its own money first, then sell something finished. Its border surveillance towers were tested with US Customs and Border Protection in 2019. In 2020 the agency made them an official program, and in June 2026 Anduril announced a $363 million order for more than 200 more. Presented by @usvcfund which helps broaden access to venture capital for U.S. investors starting at $500. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
This guy turns a gas station into a $2B road-trip empire! ⛽🐻 Arch Aplin III grows up in Texas, the son of a construction worker. In 1980, he sees what everyone else ignores: every gas station is dirty and forgettable. So he takes out a loan and opens the first Buc-ee’s in Lake Jackson, naming it after his childhood nickname, Beaver. ✓ He does the opposite—spotless bathrooms, high pay, Texas BBQ, fudge, and fun merch ✓ Opens a mega-store in Luling: 66 pumps, 5,000 sq ft, $28M in year one ✓ Refuses to franchise—keeps full control, handpicks every location ✓ Builds Buc-ee’s into a cult road-trip destination, not just a gas stop One store → 54 locations in 9 states → world’s largest convenience store → $2B+ family-owned empire. Sometimes, the best way to win is to obsess over the details everyone else ignores. What boring business would you turn into a cult by doing the opposite? 🤔 #Business #Retail #Texas #Success #Entrepreneur
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This guy turns a gas station into a $2B road-trip empire! ⛽🐻 Arch Aplin III grows up in Texas, the son of a construction worker. In 1980, he sees what everyone else ignores: every gas station is dirty and forgettable. So he takes out a loan and opens the first Buc-ee’s in Lake Jackson, naming it after his childhood nickname, Beaver. ✓ He does the opposite—spotless bathrooms, high pay, Texas BBQ, fudge, and fun merch ✓ Opens a mega-store in Luling: 66 pumps, 5,000 sq ft, $28M in year one ✓ Refuses to franchise—keeps full control, handpicks every location ✓ Builds Buc-ee’s into a cult road-trip destination, not just a gas stop One store → 54 locations in 9 states → world’s largest convenience store → $2B+ family-owned empire. Sometimes, the best way to win is to obsess over the details everyone else ignores. What boring business would you turn into a cult by doing the opposite? 🤔 #Business #Retail #Texas #Success #Entrepreneur
This guy went viral for “cold caking” people and made $120,000 in a single month 🎂💰 William Lindholm starts a business automating birthday cake deliveries for companies. It works in Norway, but then he moves to San Francisco and hits a problem: American companies don't really celebrate employee birthdays. So he needs a new angle. Cold emails are dead, he realises. People get a thousand of them and nobody reads them anymore. So instead of sending emails, he starts sending cakes. ✓ Mails seven cakes to the biggest VCs in Silicon Valley, A16Z and Sequoia included, all on the same day ✓ Has them show up at the offices unannounced, and books five meetings that same day ✓ Gets startups flooding in wanting to send their pitch deck on a cake to investors ✓ Prints the deck as a QR code on the cake, so investors scan it and founders actually land meetings Cake business dies in the US → cold emails are dead too → sends cakes instead → seven cakes to top VCs → five meetings same day → 1,000 cakes and $120K in a single month. Sometimes the way to get noticed is showing up in a form nobody can ignore. What would you send instead of an email that people physically couldn't ignore? 🤔 #Business #Daymaker #Marketing #Success #Entrepreneur
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This guy went viral for “cold caking” people and made $120,000 in a single month 🎂💰 William Lindholm starts a business automating birthday cake deliveries for companies. It works in Norway, but then he moves to San Francisco and hits a problem: American companies don't really celebrate employee birthdays. So he needs a new angle. Cold emails are dead, he realises. People get a thousand of them and nobody reads them anymore. So instead of sending emails, he starts sending cakes. ✓ Mails seven cakes to the biggest VCs in Silicon Valley, A16Z and Sequoia included, all on the same day ✓ Has them show up at the offices unannounced, and books five meetings that same day ✓ Gets startups flooding in wanting to send their pitch deck on a cake to investors ✓ Prints the deck as a QR code on the cake, so investors scan it and founders actually land meetings Cake business dies in the US → cold emails are dead too → sends cakes instead → seven cakes to top VCs → five meetings same day → 1,000 cakes and $120K in a single month. Sometimes the way to get noticed is showing up in a form nobody can ignore. What would you send instead of an email that people physically couldn't ignore? 🤔 #Business #Daymaker #Marketing #Success #Entrepreneur
This 22-year-old turned down Google to build a coding app that just sold for $60 billion 💻💰 Aman Sanger has been writing code since he was 14. He goes to MIT, interns at Google, and could walk into any job in tech. Instead, in 2022, he starts his own company. His bet is simple: building software is hard because you have to write the code, so what if you didn't? He and his friends build Cursor, where you tell it what you want in plain English and it writes the code for you, across your entire project. ✓ Lets developers finish in a day what used to take a whole team a week ✓ Opens the door for people who never learned to code to build real apps of their own ✓ Becomes the fastest software company in history to hit $100 million in sales, then $1 billion, then $2 billion ✓ Gets bought by SpaceX for $60 billion in June 2026 Turns down Google → bets you shouldn't have to write code → builds Cursor → fastest company ever to $1B → $60B SpaceX deal → four twenty-somethings become billionaires. Sometimes the biggest opportunity is questioning the one thing everyone assumes is required. What would you make effortless if you removed the hardest part entirely? 🤔 #Business #Cursor #AI #Success #Entrepreneur
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This 22-year-old turned down Google to build a coding app that just sold for $60 billion 💻💰 Aman Sanger has been writing code since he was 14. He goes to MIT, interns at Google, and could walk into any job in tech. Instead, in 2022, he starts his own company. His bet is simple: building software is hard because you have to write the code, so what if you didn't? He and his friends build Cursor, where you tell it what you want in plain English and it writes the code for you, across your entire project. ✓ Lets developers finish in a day what used to take a whole team a week ✓ Opens the door for people who never learned to code to build real apps of their own ✓ Becomes the fastest software company in history to hit $100 million in sales, then $1 billion, then $2 billion ✓ Gets bought by SpaceX for $60 billion in June 2026 Turns down Google → bets you shouldn't have to write code → builds Cursor → fastest company ever to $1B → $60B SpaceX deal → four twenty-somethings become billionaires. Sometimes the biggest opportunity is questioning the one thing everyone assumes is required. What would you make effortless if you removed the hardest part entirely? 🤔 #Business #Cursor #AI #Success #Entrepreneur
This woman turned ugly shoes into an $8 billion fashion empire 👡💰 In 1966, Margot Fraser is working as a dressmaker, and her feet ache from years of tight shoes. On a trip to Germany, she tries on a strange-looking cork sandal, built by a family who'd been making shoes since 1774, and the pain vanishes instantly. So she packs a dozen pairs in her suitcase, flies home, and starts knocking on doors. Every single store turns her away. They all think the shoes are just too ugly. ✓ Stops trying to sell in shoe stores altogether ✓ Sets up a booth at a health food convention, right next to the vitamins and granola ✓ Wins over store owners who stand all day and instantly love them ✓ Gets every shoe store calling and begging for inventory soon after Aching feet → tries a strange cork sandal → stores reject it as ugly → sells it beside the granola instead → the right people fall in love → 38 million pairs a year and an $8B brand. Sometimes the way in isn't the front door everyone's fighting over; it's the room next door. What would you sell in the room next door if everyone slammed the front door on you? 🤔 #Business #Birkenstock #Fashion #Success #Entrepreneur @BIRKENSTOCK @Birkenstock Europe @BIRKENSTOCK USA
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This woman turned ugly shoes into an $8 billion fashion empire 👡💰 In 1966, Margot Fraser is working as a dressmaker, and her feet ache from years of tight shoes. On a trip to Germany, she tries on a strange-looking cork sandal, built by a family who'd been making shoes since 1774, and the pain vanishes instantly. So she packs a dozen pairs in her suitcase, flies home, and starts knocking on doors. Every single store turns her away. They all think the shoes are just too ugly. ✓ Stops trying to sell in shoe stores altogether ✓ Sets up a booth at a health food convention, right next to the vitamins and granola ✓ Wins over store owners who stand all day and instantly love them ✓ Gets every shoe store calling and begging for inventory soon after Aching feet → tries a strange cork sandal → stores reject it as ugly → sells it beside the granola instead → the right people fall in love → 38 million pairs a year and an $8B brand. Sometimes the way in isn't the front door everyone's fighting over; it's the room next door. What would you sell in the room next door if everyone slammed the front door on you? 🤔 #Business #Birkenstock #Fashion #Success #Entrepreneur @BIRKENSTOCK @Birkenstock Europe @BIRKENSTOCK USA
Meet the real-life cowboy behind Yellowstone - Taylor Sheridan. In 2015, after two decades as a struggling actor living in his car, he switched to screenwriting at age 40 and created a neo-Western TV empire. After watching traditional Westerns disappear from screens, Sheridan convinced Paramount to take a chance on "Yellowstone," a series about a powerful rancher fighting to protect his land from developers, politicians, and a neighboring Native American reservation. When the show exploded to 15 million viewers, he leveraged his success by creating spinoffs like "1883" and "1923," bringing Hollywood legends like Harrison Ford into his world. The breakthrough came when Sheridan purchased the historic 6666 Ranch for $320 million with investors. He now films his own shows on his own property, charging Paramount $50,000 weekly for location use, plus fees for his cattle and "cowboy camp" training. Today, the Yellowstone franchise is worth $500 million, with spinoffs continuing to expand his empire. What transformed a struggling actor into a half-billion dollar showrunner? Authentic Storytelling: By drawing from his real ranching experience, Sheridan created a world that resonated with audiences overlooked by Hollywood. Complete Creative Control: Unlike most showrunners, Sheridan writes every episode himself, maintaining a singular vision that connects with viewers. Business Integration: Rather than separating his creative and business ventures, Sheridan built a vertically integrated empire where his shows promote his ranches and vice versa. Sheridan's story demonstrates that sometimes the biggest opportunities come from personal experience. By turning his childhood ranch background into television's most successful franchise, he created an empire that transformed the modern Western genre. #taylorSheridan #yellowstone #paramount #KevinCostner #1883 
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Meet the real-life cowboy behind Yellowstone - Taylor Sheridan. In 2015, after two decades as a struggling actor living in his car, he switched to screenwriting at age 40 and created a neo-Western TV empire. After watching traditional Westerns disappear from screens, Sheridan convinced Paramount to take a chance on "Yellowstone," a series about a powerful rancher fighting to protect his land from developers, politicians, and a neighboring Native American reservation. When the show exploded to 15 million viewers, he leveraged his success by creating spinoffs like "1883" and "1923," bringing Hollywood legends like Harrison Ford into his world. The breakthrough came when Sheridan purchased the historic 6666 Ranch for $320 million with investors. He now films his own shows on his own property, charging Paramount $50,000 weekly for location use, plus fees for his cattle and "cowboy camp" training. Today, the Yellowstone franchise is worth $500 million, with spinoffs continuing to expand his empire. What transformed a struggling actor into a half-billion dollar showrunner? Authentic Storytelling: By drawing from his real ranching experience, Sheridan created a world that resonated with audiences overlooked by Hollywood. Complete Creative Control: Unlike most showrunners, Sheridan writes every episode himself, maintaining a singular vision that connects with viewers. Business Integration: Rather than separating his creative and business ventures, Sheridan built a vertically integrated empire where his shows promote his ranches and vice versa. Sheridan's story demonstrates that sometimes the biggest opportunities come from personal experience. By turning his childhood ranch background into television's most successful franchise, he created an empire that transformed the modern Western genre. #taylorSheridan #yellowstone #paramount #KevinCostner #1883 
We only post about the world's greatest entrepreneurs! Shad Khan bought his NFL team by cold calling. It is the habit he credits for most of what he has. He found the bumper job in the video by going door to door across Illinois. He found his Japanese customers by calling them cold. Years later he did the same with the NFL. He visited the league office in New York and got the names and contact details of the team owners. Then he called them and went to see them, with no team for sale. In 2010 he had a signed deal to buy the St. Louis Rams. A minority owner had the right to match it, and did, on the last day. Shad has called it heartbreaking. He went back to visiting owners. The next year the Jaguars came up, and he was ready. He once told a graduating class that nobody finds an NFL team for sale on Craigslist. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
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We only post about the world's greatest entrepreneurs! Shad Khan bought his NFL team by cold calling. It is the habit he credits for most of what he has. He found the bumper job in the video by going door to door across Illinois. He found his Japanese customers by calling them cold. Years later he did the same with the NFL. He visited the league office in New York and got the names and contact details of the team owners. Then he called them and went to see them, with no team for sale. In 2010 he had a signed deal to buy the St. Louis Rams. A minority owner had the right to match it, and did, on the last day. Shad has called it heartbreaking. He went back to visiting owners. The next year the Jaguars came up, and he was ready. He once told a graduating class that nobody finds an NFL team for sale on Craigslist. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
This guy went from selling fake clothes to his classmates to building his own $50 million empire! In 2001, Rhuigi Villaseñor's family moves from Manila to the San Fernando Valley. He's nine and speaks no English, so he learns the language watching Kobe Bryant interviews on repeat. He can't afford the clothes he wants, so he steals them and resells them at school. Growing up in the Valley, surrounded by LA's bandana culture, he realizes nobody has built a brand around it. So he designs a T-shirt with a blown-out bandana print and puts it online. He doesn't get a single sale for three months. Then Kendrick Lamar wears it at the BET Awards. Rhuigi opens his PayPal in a beat-up Ford Runner with his sister, sees $150,000, and starts crying. But he blows it all on cars and jewelry, the second collection flops, and he's back to zero, sleeping on a mattress and almost moving back in with his parents. ✓ Flies to Paris instead and walks into a Barneys buying meeting with the clothes on his back, landing an order ✓ Gets Jay-Z wearing it offstage ✓ Has LeBron James show up in a Rhude T-shirt courtside ✓ Collaborates with McLaren and Lamborghini in 2021 Reselling stolen clothes at school → spots bandana culture nobody's branded → three months of no sales → Kendrick wears it → $150K overnight → blows it all → nearly quits → flies to Paris on his last shot → $50 million a year. Sometimes rock bottom is exactly where you find the nerve to bet on yourself one more time. #Business #Rhude #Fashion #Success #Entrepreneur
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This guy went from selling fake clothes to his classmates to building his own $50 million empire! In 2001, Rhuigi Villaseñor's family moves from Manila to the San Fernando Valley. He's nine and speaks no English, so he learns the language watching Kobe Bryant interviews on repeat. He can't afford the clothes he wants, so he steals them and resells them at school. Growing up in the Valley, surrounded by LA's bandana culture, he realizes nobody has built a brand around it. So he designs a T-shirt with a blown-out bandana print and puts it online. He doesn't get a single sale for three months. Then Kendrick Lamar wears it at the BET Awards. Rhuigi opens his PayPal in a beat-up Ford Runner with his sister, sees $150,000, and starts crying. But he blows it all on cars and jewelry, the second collection flops, and he's back to zero, sleeping on a mattress and almost moving back in with his parents. ✓ Flies to Paris instead and walks into a Barneys buying meeting with the clothes on his back, landing an order ✓ Gets Jay-Z wearing it offstage ✓ Has LeBron James show up in a Rhude T-shirt courtside ✓ Collaborates with McLaren and Lamborghini in 2021 Reselling stolen clothes at school → spots bandana culture nobody's branded → three months of no sales → Kendrick wears it → $150K overnight → blows it all → nearly quits → flies to Paris on his last shot → $50 million a year. Sometimes rock bottom is exactly where you find the nerve to bet on yourself one more time. #Business #Rhude #Fashion #Success #Entrepreneur
The water in Liquid Death is just water. Cessario worked out what the product really was backstage at a punk festival in 2009. The bands were pouring water into empty Monster cans to hide what they were drinking. Holding a bottle of water on a stage full of people with beers makes you the one person who is not drinking, and nobody wanted to be that person. So the can is what he was selling. His brief was that walking round a club with a can of water had to feel exactly as good as walking round with a beer, which is why it comes in a tallboy with a metal logo and Murder Your Thirst down the side. The customer is anybody at a gig or a bar who does not want to drink and does not want to look like it. Liquid Death took around $333 million in 2024, and now sells energy drinks, soda and iced tea alongside the water. Across Instagram and TikTok it is the third most followed drinks brand in the world, behind Red Bull and Monster. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
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The water in Liquid Death is just water. Cessario worked out what the product really was backstage at a punk festival in 2009. The bands were pouring water into empty Monster cans to hide what they were drinking. Holding a bottle of water on a stage full of people with beers makes you the one person who is not drinking, and nobody wanted to be that person. So the can is what he was selling. His brief was that walking round a club with a can of water had to feel exactly as good as walking round with a beer, which is why it comes in a tallboy with a metal logo and Murder Your Thirst down the side. The customer is anybody at a gig or a bar who does not want to drink and does not want to look like it. Liquid Death took around $333 million in 2024, and now sells energy drinks, soda and iced tea alongside the water. Across Instagram and TikTok it is the third most followed drinks brand in the world, behind Red Bull and Monster. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
OpenAl and Anthropic are copying one Palantir job. Palantir calls them forward deployed engineers. Instead of selling software and walking away, it puts its engineers inside the customer, the way its team once sat beside CIA analysts, and keeps them there until the software does the job. In the last few years the big Al labs have started hiring for the same role. OpenAl's forward deployed engineers turn "research breakthroughs into production systems," and Anthropic's build custom Al systems for large companies. In July 2025, Semafor called it "the new hot job in Al." Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
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OpenAl and Anthropic are copying one Palantir job. Palantir calls them forward deployed engineers. Instead of selling software and walking away, it puts its engineers inside the customer, the way its team once sat beside CIA analysts, and keeps them there until the software does the job. In the last few years the big Al labs have started hiring for the same role. OpenAl's forward deployed engineers turn "research breakthroughs into production systems," and Anthropic's build custom Al systems for large companies. In July 2025, Semafor called it "the new hot job in Al." Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
This guy beat cancer, then used the payout to build a 900-store açaí empire across 45 countries 🫐🌎 Georgios Frangulis grows up in São Paulo and studies law, but he's an entrepreneur at heart. Living in the US, he spots what everyone misses: açaí is blowing up as a superfood, but the bowls are watered down, dyed, and loaded with syrup—the real Brazilian berry is nowhere. So in 2016 he takes his last €30,000 and opens a single açaí shop in São Paulo, 100% natural. ✓ Sells it pure—no dyes, no syrup, no shortcuts ✓ Keeps the footprint tiny and franchises aggressively ✓ Produces his own açaí, straight from the Amazon to the bowl ✓ Opens a new store every three days One shop in São Paulo → a new store every 3 days → $67M raised + an F1 sponsorship → 900 stores in 45 countries. Sometimes the biggest opportunity is doing the real thing in a market full of fakes. What everyday product would you win just by refusing to cut corners? 🤔 #Business #Franchise #Brazil #Success #Açaí @OAKBERRY
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This guy beat cancer, then used the payout to build a 900-store açaí empire across 45 countries 🫐🌎 Georgios Frangulis grows up in São Paulo and studies law, but he's an entrepreneur at heart. Living in the US, he spots what everyone misses: açaí is blowing up as a superfood, but the bowls are watered down, dyed, and loaded with syrup—the real Brazilian berry is nowhere. So in 2016 he takes his last €30,000 and opens a single açaí shop in São Paulo, 100% natural. ✓ Sells it pure—no dyes, no syrup, no shortcuts ✓ Keeps the footprint tiny and franchises aggressively ✓ Produces his own açaí, straight from the Amazon to the bowl ✓ Opens a new store every three days One shop in São Paulo → a new store every 3 days → $67M raised + an F1 sponsorship → 900 stores in 45 countries. Sometimes the biggest opportunity is doing the real thing in a market full of fakes. What everyday product would you win just by refusing to cut corners? 🤔 #Business #Franchise #Brazil #Success #Açaí @OAKBERRY
This guy built Spotify, and now he's building a $1.8 billion company that scans your entire body in under an hour 🩺⚡ After making billions changing how the world listens to music, Daniel Ek and co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne notice a problem in healthcare. Doctors only see you once you're already sick, and by then it's often too late. While the entire medical system sits back and waits for symptoms, Ek and Nilsonne bet on catching them early. Instead of building another health app, they do something nobody else would: they build physical clinics from scratch. ✓ Opens the first clinic in Stockholm in 2023 ✓ Scans you with thermal cameras, lasers, and 3D sensors in about 30 minutes ✓ Sends you out with a full read on your heart, skin, and blood for £299 ✓ Runs the Spotify playbook: offers next year's appointment at the end of every scan, and 80% prepay on the spot Bets on catching illness early → builds real clinics → turns one-time checkups into subscriptions → $1.8B valuation. Sometimes the breakthrough is taking a model that worked in one industry and dropping it where nobody expects it. What subscription would you build for something people only ever pay for once? 🤔 #Business #NekoHealth #Healthtech #Success #Entrepreneur @Neko Health
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This guy built Spotify, and now he's building a $1.8 billion company that scans your entire body in under an hour 🩺⚡ After making billions changing how the world listens to music, Daniel Ek and co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne notice a problem in healthcare. Doctors only see you once you're already sick, and by then it's often too late. While the entire medical system sits back and waits for symptoms, Ek and Nilsonne bet on catching them early. Instead of building another health app, they do something nobody else would: they build physical clinics from scratch. ✓ Opens the first clinic in Stockholm in 2023 ✓ Scans you with thermal cameras, lasers, and 3D sensors in about 30 minutes ✓ Sends you out with a full read on your heart, skin, and blood for £299 ✓ Runs the Spotify playbook: offers next year's appointment at the end of every scan, and 80% prepay on the spot Bets on catching illness early → builds real clinics → turns one-time checkups into subscriptions → $1.8B valuation. Sometimes the breakthrough is taking a model that worked in one industry and dropping it where nobody expects it. What subscription would you build for something people only ever pay for once? 🤔 #Business #NekoHealth #Healthtech #Success #Entrepreneur @Neko Health
Buffett bought Nebraska Furniture Mart after asking one question. Do you owe any money? Her answer is the whole business. Blumkin sold at $3.98 where the big Omaha stores charged $6.98, and they sued her four times for it. She won every case, and the price was never really the point. A shop carrying debt has to cover its interest out of margin, so it needs prices to stay high, which is why the big stores fought so hard to keep them there. Blumkin owed nobody anything, so she could trade at a margin that would have killed her competitors and keep doing it forever. The second thing Buffett learned cost him more. At 95 she fell out with the grandsons running the shop and quit, opened a rival store across the street, and her customers walked over with her. He had bought the building and she had kept the business, so he bought her out a second time and made a 99 year old sign a non-compete. She went back to work until she was 103. She had arrived from Russia with $500 and never learned to write, so she signed that $60 million contract with a scrawl. Nebraska Furniture Mart now sells more than a billion dollars a year. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told.
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Buffett bought Nebraska Furniture Mart after asking one question. Do you owe any money? Her answer is the whole business. Blumkin sold at $3.98 where the big Omaha stores charged $6.98, and they sued her four times for it. She won every case, and the price was never really the point. A shop carrying debt has to cover its interest out of margin, so it needs prices to stay high, which is why the big stores fought so hard to keep them there. Blumkin owed nobody anything, so she could trade at a margin that would have killed her competitors and keep doing it forever. The second thing Buffett learned cost him more. At 95 she fell out with the grandsons running the shop and quit, opened a rival store across the street, and her customers walked over with her. He had bought the building and she had kept the business, so he bought her out a second time and made a 99 year old sign a non-compete. She went back to work until she was 103. She had arrived from Russia with $500 and never learned to write, so she signed that $60 million contract with a scrawl. Nebraska Furniture Mart now sells more than a billion dollars a year. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told.
This guy turned his dad's car into a $250 million empire! In 1977, Bodo Buschmann is 22 and working at his father's Mercedes dealership in Germany. Bodo loves Porsches, but his father hates them, so he has to drive a Benz to keep his job. So he starts taking it apart, swapping the engine and reworking the suspension until his S-Class is faster than any Porsche on the lot. A customer spots it and wants one built exactly the same. So Bodo registers the company, names it BRABUS, and starts taking orders. By 1984 rental giant Sixt orders 200 BRABUS-tuned cars in a single deal, and he builds a factory straight off the autobahn. Then in 1999 Mercedes buys AMG, and every independent tuner in Germany loses their edge. ✓ Sees what everyone misses while AMG sticks to a few specs picked by management ✓ Becomes the only shop on earth where customers build a truly custom Mercedes with zero limits ✓ Hits 330 km/h that same year with their E V12 ✓ Enters the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest production sedan on the planet Forced to drive a Benz → tears it apart to beat Porsches → a customer wants one → 200-car Sixt order → AMG kills off the tuners → he goes fully custom instead → 100 countries and $250 million a year. Sometimes you win by offering the one thing the giant refuses to: no limits. #Business #BRABUS #Automotive #Success #Entrepreneur @Constantin Buschmann
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This guy turned his dad's car into a $250 million empire! In 1977, Bodo Buschmann is 22 and working at his father's Mercedes dealership in Germany. Bodo loves Porsches, but his father hates them, so he has to drive a Benz to keep his job. So he starts taking it apart, swapping the engine and reworking the suspension until his S-Class is faster than any Porsche on the lot. A customer spots it and wants one built exactly the same. So Bodo registers the company, names it BRABUS, and starts taking orders. By 1984 rental giant Sixt orders 200 BRABUS-tuned cars in a single deal, and he builds a factory straight off the autobahn. Then in 1999 Mercedes buys AMG, and every independent tuner in Germany loses their edge. ✓ Sees what everyone misses while AMG sticks to a few specs picked by management ✓ Becomes the only shop on earth where customers build a truly custom Mercedes with zero limits ✓ Hits 330 km/h that same year with their E V12 ✓ Enters the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest production sedan on the planet Forced to drive a Benz → tears it apart to beat Porsches → a customer wants one → 200-car Sixt order → AMG kills off the tuners → he goes fully custom instead → 100 countries and $250 million a year. Sometimes you win by offering the one thing the giant refuses to: no limits. #Business #BRABUS #Automotive #Success #Entrepreneur @Constantin Buschmann
Blakely wrote the Spanx patent from a textbook. Lawyers quoted her $3,000 to do it, so she bought a book on patents at Barnes and Noble and wrote the application herself. Her mother drew the prototype sketches. She did every job that a founder normally pays a specialist to do. ne sold it the same way. The bathroom demonstration at eiman Marcus was not a one off moment of nerve, it was er method. She travelled the country putting the product h herself in front of store buyers, because she had worked out that nobody was going to understand it from a description. Even the Oprah break was her own doing. She posted a gift basket to Oprah's stylist, and in November 2000 Spanx was named one of Oprah's favourite things. Sales hit $4 million that first year. Doing all of it herself is why she never needed a penny from anyone, and why she still owned every share twenty one years later. When Blackstone bought its majority stake in 2021 at a $1.2 billion valuation, the new investors alongside it included Oprah Winfrey. The woman whose endorsement built the company ended up owning part of it. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
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Blakely wrote the Spanx patent from a textbook. Lawyers quoted her $3,000 to do it, so she bought a book on patents at Barnes and Noble and wrote the application herself. Her mother drew the prototype sketches. She did every job that a founder normally pays a specialist to do. ne sold it the same way. The bathroom demonstration at eiman Marcus was not a one off moment of nerve, it was er method. She travelled the country putting the product h herself in front of store buyers, because she had worked out that nobody was going to understand it from a description. Even the Oprah break was her own doing. She posted a gift basket to Oprah's stylist, and in November 2000 Spanx was named one of Oprah's favourite things. Sales hit $4 million that first year. Doing all of it herself is why she never needed a penny from anyone, and why she still owned every share twenty one years later. When Blackstone bought its majority stake in 2021 at a $1.2 billion valuation, the new investors alongside it included Oprah Winfrey. The woman whose endorsement built the company ended up owning part of it. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told!
Check them out: @thegride This guy beat cancer, built a $300 million business, and now he's doing it again! In 2016, Georgios Frangulis is living in Los Angeles, broke, no credit score, with a wild idea: sell açaí bowls to Americans. But nobody will rent a shop to a guy with no money selling a fruit they've never heard of. So Georgios flips the script, flies home to Brazil, and bets his last money on one tiny store in São Paulo. Then life hits harder when doctors find a tumor in his neck. He beats the cancer, and an unexpected insurance payout lands right when the business needs cash. He pours every cent into açaí, and the bet works. ✓ Explodes Oakberry to more than 1,000 stores in over 50 countries ✓ Grows it to around $300 million a year ✓ Keeps hearing one question flood his DMs every time he posts: where did you get that? ✓ Realizes people don't just want his açaí, they want his clothes Broke in LA with a fruit nobody knows → bets his last money on one Brazil store → beats cancer mid-launch → an insurance payout saves it → 1,000 stores and $300 million → his own outfits become the next demand. So he's doing it again with The Gride, "Greek" plus "Pride," made in Portugal and printed with the exact tattoos inked on his body. Just launched. #Business #Oakberry #TheGride #Success #Entrepreneur@oakberry
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Check them out: @thegride This guy beat cancer, built a $300 million business, and now he's doing it again! In 2016, Georgios Frangulis is living in Los Angeles, broke, no credit score, with a wild idea: sell açaí bowls to Americans. But nobody will rent a shop to a guy with no money selling a fruit they've never heard of. So Georgios flips the script, flies home to Brazil, and bets his last money on one tiny store in São Paulo. Then life hits harder when doctors find a tumor in his neck. He beats the cancer, and an unexpected insurance payout lands right when the business needs cash. He pours every cent into açaí, and the bet works. ✓ Explodes Oakberry to more than 1,000 stores in over 50 countries ✓ Grows it to around $300 million a year ✓ Keeps hearing one question flood his DMs every time he posts: where did you get that? ✓ Realizes people don't just want his açaí, they want his clothes Broke in LA with a fruit nobody knows → bets his last money on one Brazil store → beats cancer mid-launch → an insurance payout saves it → 1,000 stores and $300 million → his own outfits become the next demand. So he's doing it again with The Gride, "Greek" plus "Pride," made in Portugal and printed with the exact tattoos inked on his body. Just launched. #Business #Oakberry #TheGride #Success #Entrepreneur@oakberry
David Tran never trademarked the word Sriracha, and it made him more money than owning it would have. Because the name was free, Heinz and Tabasco could put Sriracha on their own bottles. They also had to spend real money teaching Americans to want the stuff. Tran had never bought a single advertisement and he did not need to start, because most of the people those campaigns created went looking for the sauce they had already seen on restaurant tables. That bottle had a rooster on it, and the rooster was the part nobody could copy. Holding the price down was the other half of it. A restaurant only leaves a bottle on every table if the sauce is cheap enough to treat as a condiment. Raise the price and it moves behind the counter, and the free advertising stops. Tran held his price for decades, so the bottles stayed out where everyone could see them. Huy Fong now sells tens of millions of bottles a year and has still never run an advertisement. In 2023 Forbes named him the world's first hot sauce billionaire, from a company he named after the freighter that carried him out of Vietnam. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told.
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David Tran never trademarked the word Sriracha, and it made him more money than owning it would have. Because the name was free, Heinz and Tabasco could put Sriracha on their own bottles. They also had to spend real money teaching Americans to want the stuff. Tran had never bought a single advertisement and he did not need to start, because most of the people those campaigns created went looking for the sauce they had already seen on restaurant tables. That bottle had a rooster on it, and the rooster was the part nobody could copy. Holding the price down was the other half of it. A restaurant only leaves a bottle on every table if the sauce is cheap enough to treat as a condiment. Raise the price and it moves behind the counter, and the free advertising stops. Tran held his price for decades, so the bottles stayed out where everyone could see them. Huy Fong now sells tens of millions of bottles a year and has still never run an advertisement. In 2023 Forbes named him the world's first hot sauce billionaire, from a company he named after the freighter that carried him out of Vietnam. Follow @theventure for the greatest founder stories ever told.

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