@theventure: This college dropout made candy in her kitchen and sold it for $360 million 🍬💰 At 21, Tara Bosch is broke and drifting through college with no real plan. But she's obsessed with candy, and she hates that every bag is pure sugar. She just wants something she can eat without feeling terrible. So she decides to make it herself, drops out, and starts cooking gummy bears in her apartment. She has no money, no experience, and every investor turns her down. So Tara bets everything: she takes on $105,000 in debt and puts up her car just to make the first batch. ✓ Calls it SmartSweets and watches it fly off the shelves ✓ Lands Whole Foods across the country, doing $2 million in year one ✓ Scales it to over $100 million a year within four years ✓ Sells the whole thing for $360 million in 2020, at just 26 Broke college dropout → wants candy without the sugar → bets her car and $105K → SmartSweets flies off shelves → $100M a year → $360M exit at 26. Now instead of retiring, Tara's doing it all over again with Snackish, taking on the chip aisle the same way: real, fried chips with 8 grams of protein and none of the junk. Sometimes the best ideas come from fixing the thing that personally drives you crazy. What would you make better if you built it for yourself first? 🤔 #Business #SmartSweets #Snackish #Success #Entrepreneur @Snackish @tara bosch @SmartSweets

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