Teacher Dismissed Teen's Hot Sauce Business Idea Before He Sold 250,000 Bottles

What was said

"He's a 16-year-old young man, and he's given a project that he's gotta pitch a business. He gives the presentation. Teacher says, ah, not very realistic. This thing's not going to work. You're crazy. And by the way, that actually really happened. It's not like some cute part of the story. He says, oh yeah, I'll show you."

Drew Davis pitched his Crippling Hot Sauce business concept as a high school project at age 16 and was told by his teacher it was unrealistic and wouldn't work. Two years later at age 19, after launching the company at 17, Davis has sold 250,000 bottles and donated extensively to cerebral palsy research, proving his teacher spectacularly wrong.