How This Ex-accountant Built a $100m Empire in Just 6 Years

The story of Sarah Kauss

Alan Trapulionis
Entrepreneurship Handbook
11 min readApr 14, 2020

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That was a $2 million phone call.

On the other end of the line was Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks. Sarah Kauss’s little water bottle company had just closed Starbucks.

Sarah wasn’t a cyber-genius with curly hair. She didn’t assemble computer code since before she…

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