The Kombucha Billionaire Looking To Save The Industry From Itself | Forbes

GT Dave is the founder of GT's Living Foods, a business with an estimated $275 million in sales. He spent $40 million on the company's new, 260,000-square-foot factory in Vernon, California, which will be able to produce more than 1 million gallons of kombucha a year. “This is the next level for us,” says Dave, known as “GT” since before he began brewing kombucha at his mother’s kitchen table. Unlike many of his rivals, he says, he makes his authentically, and it’ll stay like that: “From day one, I tried to emulate a homemade process.” Dave lets nature do much of the work, as he has since the beginning: fermenting a blend of black and green teas in small batches of 5-gallon jars for a month. Read the full feature on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesor... Forbes Portraits is a weekly series that profiles the billionaires, leaders and innovators using entrepreneurial capitalism to change the world. Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?s... Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter:   / forbes   Forbes Video on Instagram:   / forbes   More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.