🥤“Unlimited Free Samples” — Poppi’s co-founder Allison Ellsworth interviews with TBOY
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Allison Ellsworth ditched the oil industry to fix her gut problems. After getting a check from Shark Tank, she launched Poppi with her husband and co-founder on Mar 3, 2020. 5 years later, she sold Poppi for $2B to Pepsi. In this episode, Allison will tell us…
- How a Texas oil gal pivoted to healthy soda
- Going on shark tank 9 months pregnant
- Why they sold on amazon instead of DTC
- Why Alix Earle loves Poppi
- Their lottery ticket Super Bowl ad that opened for Usher
- Why 5 thousand people send hand-written messages to Poppi every month
- That they give away 30k cases of free Poppi every year
- #Vendinggate and her only apology to her fans
- How Pepsi offered to acquire Poppi for $2B
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| 0:00.0 | Yeties, this is Jack. And this is not just Jack. And this is Nick. We got a special guest here, Nicholas. |
| 0:08.0 | So good. This feels so good. Yeti's Nick is back, baby. Oh, yes, I am. And yes, we are. This is just |
| 0:15.8 | fantastic. I'm so excited to see Jack. You're glowing right now. I'm not glowing right now. |
| 0:20.6 | So yeah, these, Nick got back from the hospital over the weekend. He's had, what, like 36 hours to say hi to Molly, catch your breath, get some sleep, reaclimate to the non-hospital lifestyle. |
| 0:32.0 | I actually measure everything in doses of oxycodone, Jack. I mean, Jack, this is Liberation Day. |
| 0:39.8 | Finally out of the hospital, feeling great. |
| 0:42.0 | And yet he's, Jack and I are busy right now preparing Tuesday's show daily as usual |
| 0:47.3 | three fantastic stories. |
| 0:48.7 | But Jack, why don't you tell the Yetis what we planned for today? |
| 0:50.7 | Okay, so we did an amazing interview with Allison Ellsworth, the co-founder of |
| 0:55.6 | Poppy, the soda brand that just sold to Pepsi for $2 billion. We were going to drop this episode |
| 1:00.9 | during our vacation, but we're going to give Nick an extra day to get back into the swing of |
| 1:05.7 | things. So Tuesday's pod will be our regular programming, but we basically promoted this |
| 1:10.7 | interview episode |
| 1:11.5 | to today. |
| 1:12.3 | So enjoy today's best interview yet. |
| 1:14.9 | And in the meantime, Jack and I are cooking up tomorrow's tea boy for you. |
| 1:18.2 | Nick, it's amazing soon. |
| 1:20.2 | I cannot wait for tomorrow's show, but this interview pod is also the best one yet. |
| 1:24.6 | Jack, before we go, just a quick thank you to everyone who sent in the insanely |
| 1:29.1 | kind messages and texts and DMs over the last few days. It was so meaningful. It's amazing having |
| 1:34.1 | your back, dude. Thanks, Jack. And thank you, Jack, for all your work. But Yetis, we're going to hit a few |
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