The founder of Marc Anthony Group built a $4 billion revenue company from scratch, starting with wine imports in Vancouver before creating Mike's Hard Lemonade and White Claw. He owns 100% of the business, carries no debt, and is worth $8 billion, all without venture capital or external investors.
Andrew, who you got? Billy of the Year. It was actually a guy I randomly met. I started asking him what he did and he said he was in the kind of beverage space. It turns out this guy is worth $8 billion and owns a beverage-focused holding company called Marc Anthony Group. He started a little like wine importing business in Vancouver and he started a company called Mike's Hard Lemonade. People would have fights in the liquor store over the last couple of bottles of Mike's Hard. He ended up also starting White Claw a couple of years ago, which is like the same idea but healthy. And now they do $4 billion of revenue last year in 2020 and the Craziest thing about this guy, he owns, I believe, 100% of the business and he has no debt. I'm obsessed with these guys who have just like taken a risk. They've done it 100% themselves. They didn't have VCs, they didn't have investors. So just an amazing story.
