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Hamdi Ulukaya is not a household name, but his creation just may be in your fridge.

In 2007, Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant, founded Chobani in upstate New York,

introducing Greek yogurt to the American market.

The brand's growth has seen the Turkish entrepreneur rise to number 182 on Forbes's

real-time billionaires list, a grim late capitalist bellwether, putting him just behind

Jaguar's owner Shahid Khan.

In less than a decade, Chobani became the second largest yogurt brand in the world.

But Ulukaya was not content just dominating AM eats. He wanted beverages as well.

He didn't just want to sell something that soothed your gut. He also wanted a product that vacated your bowels.

So in 2015, Ulukaya acquired a minority stake in a coffee chain founded in Philadelphia in 1994. The beanery has become a hipper, fancier alternative to stayed brands like Starbucks

for city dwellers and also found massive retail success with its line of canned coffees.

Ulukaya's savvy instincts, though, meant there were other suitors for the Philly Hot

Brown purveyor, and in July 2023, a third of the coffee company is acquired by Kourig Dr. Pepper,

itself a product of an earlier unwieldy merger due to the Russian nesting dolls of capitalism.

Ulichaya called and raised the maneuver, and in December that same year, Chobani outright acquired the coffee chain for a staggering $900 million, pushing Kurek, Dr. Pepper, out of the picture. Don't cry for them, though. They pivoted to acquiring a different upscale coffee chain, Peets. And now it's going to split into two

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