{"id":156705,"date":"2022-02-09T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/from-moms-cancer-to-the-kombucha-kingdom-how-gt-dave-built-his-empire"},"modified":"2022-02-10T00:44:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:44:16","slug":"from-moms-cancer-to-the-kombucha-kingdom-how-gt-dave-built-his-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/from-moms-cancer-to-the-kombucha-kingdom-how-gt-dave-built-his-empire","title":{"rendered":"From Mom&#8217;s Cancer to the Kombucha Kingdom: How GT Dave Built His Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nImage coverImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/wp-content\/images\/post\/user-11268\/fg2sae.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">GT Dave, the founder, and CEO of GT&#8217;s Living Foods may be known as the &#8220;King of Kombucha&#8221; and has a fortune of over $900 million, but he was only 15 when he started his venture and was working in his family&#8217;s kitchen. Let&#8217;s see how Dave, who doesn&#8217;t have any business plans, manages to build a giant company from this small kitchen.<\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1787826683754973\" data-ad-slot=\"1498948880\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"line nHR\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">\n<h2>Dave grew up in a nutrition-conscious home above all else.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/wp-content\/images\/post\/user-11268\/hgshbl.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">GT Dave, who grew up with parents who adopted the Eastern philosophy and carried it into their lives, looked at the world from a spiritual window from a very young age. Known as Himalayan Mother SCOBY in the early &#8217;90s, Daves became interested in Kombucha&#8217;s ancient healing properties and decided to brew her batches of fizzy, <a href=\"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/what-is-fermented-food-how-to-obtain-and-what-are-the-benefits\/\" title=\"What is Fermented Food? How to Obtain and What are the Benefits?\">fermented<\/a> tea.<\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1787826683754973\" data-ad-slot=\"1498948880\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"line nHR\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">\n<h2>In late 1994, GT&#8217;s mother, Laraine, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Laraine shared with the doctors that she was drinking a very sharp, homemade tea when she recovered. This tea was GT&#8217;s Kombucha.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/wp-content\/images\/post\/user-11268\/13glga.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">He wasn&#8217;t very successful when he started brewing his kombucha, and he didn&#8217;t have any business plans. At this point, he dropped out of high school and prepared his formula. Without formal training and business plan, GT built its brand.<\/div>\n<p><amp-ad width=\"100vw\" height=\"320\" type=\"adsense\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1787826683754973\" data-ad-slot=\"9068969645\" data-auto-format=\"rspv\" data-full-width=\"\"><\/p>\n<div overflow=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><\/amp-ad><\/p>\n<div class=\"line nHR\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">\n<h2>When he first started this business, he did everything with his hands.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/wp-content\/images\/post\/user-11268\/4eydl9.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">Inspired by his mother&#8217;s experience, his mission was to make her Kombucha accessible to everyone. At just 15 years old, he began bottling tea in the kitchen of his family&#8217;s Southern California home for brewing, becoming the first to put Kombucha on shelves in the United States.<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe energy you put into everything you do is a reflection of how people will interact with it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1787826683754973\" data-ad-slot=\"1498948880\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"line nHR\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">\n<h2>He eventually owned a company worth over $900 million.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/wp-content\/images\/post\/user-11268\/5v143b.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText \">GT revolutionized the beverage industry. He is the sole owner of Living Foods and the company is currently valued at over $900 million and continues to grow. This is also attributed to his deep passion for his product.<\/div>\n<div class=\"line nText\">Resources: <a class=\"ceo-tooltip-top\" href=\"https:\/\/gtslivingfoods.com\/our-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/gtslivingfoods.com\/our-story\/\">1st<\/a> ,<a class=\"ceo-tooltip-top\" href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/video\/345293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/video\/345293\"> 2nd<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GT Dave, the founder, and CEO of GT&#8217;s Living Foods may be known as the &#8220;King of Kombucha&#8221; and has a fortune of over $900 million, but he was only 15 when he started his venture and was working in his family&#8217;s kitchen. Let&#8217;s see how Dave, who doesn&#8217;t have any business plans, manages to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11268,"featured_media":132176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17222],"tags":[20993,21029,21074,20989,21014,20992,21011,21012,21024,21033,21007],"class_list":["post-156705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","tag-ada-en","tag-basari-en","tag-beslenme-en","tag-dil-en","tag-dolar-en","tag-dunya-en","tag-egitim-en","tag-felsefe-en","tag-icat-en","tag-mutfak-en","tag-yay-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceotudent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}