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The Pineapple That Ate Florida
A married couple built a single South Beach cafe into a 45-store wellness chain on one stubborn idea: food you would actually feed your own kids, served all day. Then a $13 billion private-equity firm bought in.
Alex Ragir
Alex Ragir is the co-founder and co-CEO of Glimmer (formerly Storyhunter), the global content-production platform he grew from zero to a vetted network of more than 40,000 filmmakers and creators across 192 countries. Before building software, he was an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News and the Associated Press in Brazil, where he won the 2010 Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on financial crime in Latin America. He works at the seam between journalism, film, and enterprise technology, helping Fortune 500 companies hire and pay creators anywhere in the world.
Will Nitze
Will Nitze is the founder and CEO of IQBAR, a brain-and-body nutrition brand he built from a Kickstarter campaign into a nine-figure CPG company selling plant-based protein bars, hydration mixes, and instant coffee in more than 10,000 retail doors. A Harvard psychology and neuroscience graduate who once sold software to oil-and-gas companies, he formulated his first products with no food-science background, scaled IQBAR past 100 million bars sold, and now hosts the founder podcast Eating Glass.