GT Dave - Building A Billion Dollar Kombucha Empire

The Casey Adams Show

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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GT Dave is the founder and CEO of the kombucha company GT’s Living Foods. In the late 1990s, he was the first to put kombucha on store shelves and his company currently owns 40% of the U.S. kombucha market. His first sale of kombucha (which he marketed as GT's Kombucha) was to Erewhon Natural Foods in 1995, when he sold two cases (24 bottles) which nearly sold out in the first day. From his bedroom, he would call buyers, distributors and store owners, using different voices to pose as different employees. GT's Kombucha later rebranded as GT's Living Foods and now produces over one million bottles per year in its 100,000-square-foot campus in Vernon. Dave has declined multiple acquisition offers and remains sole owner of GT's Living Foods which is worth over $900 million and owns 40% of the U.S. kombucha market. Learn more about GT's Living Foods: https://gtslivingfoods.com/ Follow GT Dave on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gtdave3/?hl=en Learn more about GT Dave: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2019/05/09/gt-dave-kombucha/#33ee6a6555b5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.8	gt dave here with us.T. Dave is the founder and
0:57.8	CEO of the kombucha company known as G.T.'s living foods. In the late 1990s, he was the first
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1:12.6	On this podcast we talked about how he got the idea to bottle kombucha and we also covered
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