As a young teenager, Drew Davis really came into a hot sauce.
Davis, who has a mental paralysis, weighs 300 pounds at the age of 14, and doctors said that if he does not make any major change in lifestyle, he will be on bed for 18. Low calorie spices, along with other food adjustments, helps it over the course of the year.
Image Credit: Courtesy of hot sauce. Drew Davis.
Next year, Davis had to finish a school assignment – and his hot sauce madness again came into play. Davis said, “It is two days before his dues Businessman“So I looked down, and I’m like, Yes, I like to make fun of myself, and I like hot sauce. Let’s do a disabled hot sauce.“
Davis’s business was much higher than the product itself, however: on the mission to impress and support the disabled community, Davis pledged to donate 5 % of all sales of mental stroke research.
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Davis wrote and presented his business plan, convinced that he would receive 100 % on the assignment. But it got an 82 %, or B-B. When he asked his teacher why, he was told that this was a “good idea” – but “unrealistic.” Instead of preventing feedback, Davis used it only as a motivation.
He saved, using 000 3,000, Davis started a hot sauce in 2023 from his parents’ kitchen in the small town of Missouri. He was 18 years old.
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“We’re on a mission to show that anything is possible, regardless of your situation.”
Two years later, the brand sold more than 500,000 bottles, in 2024, Million was born 2 million and in 2025 the million is on track for 5 million. It is available in more than 500 retail stores and has also gone viral on social media, which has given rise to tens of millions of ideas – all of which donate to its original mission and donate 5 % of its profits in seribal stroke research.
“We are on a mission to show that your situation does not matter, anything is possible,” says Davis. “(We) are rewriting people’s comments around the disabled community by breaking the comedy and stereotypes.”
However, like all young businessmen, Davis also had to fight some fluctuations in the journey of success.
Davis well -used his initial, 000 3,000 investment. The money was financed by trademarks, health permits and fair fees. A Google search helped him find a hot sauce base prescription, which he tweeted to make his taste.
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“Our humor is how we go through many things in life.”
In his original vision for bold, comedy branding, Davis was first released only for parking (light), lame (medium) and disabled torture (warm). Now, this brand is proud of three extra flavors: a beach of life (mild), special treatment (medium) and gaststone pepper paralysis.
Davis says, “Big, all my friends who were disabled and I was common, was our humor.” “(But for those who are not in society), it was always the case that you can’t joke because they didn’t want to hurt anyone’s emotions. We need to know that we do not have to be babysitter. The disabled community makes jokes like you.
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At the launch, within 35 minutes, a hot sauce was sold to the family and friends, and Davis was “bent.” He made another batch next week and landed his first commercial client, a local butcher shop.
Davis noted that “shoes on the ground” require efforts to enhance a brand. Fortunately, he hired his best friend from third grade to help him in this aspect. Although Davis says it was sometimes difficult to be able to do physical work, he never allowed him to stop the development of his business. To go to its first larger regional grocery store to cripple the hot sauce made at festivals at festivals.
Davis says the media and social media have also been a game changer for the young brand. The story of this brand started to physically launch Taktok – a major marketing pressure that requires zero capital. Extensive access has helped millions of people connect the brand and its mission, which has strengthened the status of seven hot sauce figures.
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“Life is short, and when your time is over, you don’t want to regret.”
Since Davis is looking at the future of disabling hot sauce, he is excited to see how his platform promotes growing new contacts and enhances impressive stories in the disabled community.
“I want my platform to become a place where people can impress and encourage and not about their situation,” says Davis. “It may be easy to do that you old, young, regardless of your generation, it doesn’t matter.
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For other young businessmen who want to chase big dreams and start their own business, Davis has some viable but indispensable advice: “Just go out.”
“When you are young, it’s time to take all the risk in the world,” says Davis. “I started with 000 3,000. You can do it with $ 100. You have a better chance to go out and try to get your dreams, just sitting on the occasion and it is expected that your dreams will come to you. Life is short, and when your time is over, you should not regret it.”
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