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This Billion-Dollar Soda Brand Founder Explains Why Fortune 500s Can’t Win Gen Z

September 24, 2026 00:00 AM UTC
- Updated September 28, 2026 20:23 PM UTC

Soda is one of the hardest categories to break into, where a few legacy giants dominate shelf space. Yet Poppi, the prebiotic soda company, turned a Texas farmers' market side hustle into a $1.95 billion sale to PepsiCo. On Term Sheet, Fortune's Allie Garfinkle sits down with co-founder Allison Ellsworth to unpack how she cracked the Gen Z code, how she turned three-day TikTok trends into lasting demand, and why incumbents are still struggling to win over the next generation of soda drinkers.

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