Poppi cofounder pitched her business on Shark Tank while 9 month pregnant

"While I was pitching during Shark Tank, I was nine months pregnant, and I had the baby about 10 days later." Allison Ellsworth built Poppi into one of the fastest-growing beverage brands in the country, using a 2018 Shark Tank appearance as a launch pad before selling her startup to Pepsi for $2 billion last year. "What I kept thinking to myself was, ‘This moment right here could change my life,’ and it absolutely did," she told Fortune. Now, Ellsworth says the beverage giant is letting ‘Poppi be Poppi,’” adding that “I think they’re actually trying to learn from us.”