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Allison Ellsworth doesn\u2019t believe in work-life balance\u2014and she has $100 million reasons why. The Poppi co-founder and her husband sold their soda company to PepsiCo for $1.95 billion last year, making them centimillionaires. But getting there meant taking business calls from the hospital bed after giving birth and breastfeeding on Zoom meetings. \u201cI think it\u2019s OK to live in chaos,\u201d Ellsworth told The Wall Street Journal<\/a> in a candid interview. \u201cA lot of people talk about work-life balance. I think if you want to be successful, you kind of have to sacrifice that.\u201d<\/p>\n The 39-year-old Austin entrepreneur landed her big break while nine months pregnant on \u201cShark Tank,\u201d securing a $400,000 investment from Rohan Oza that helped transform her apple-cider-vinegar beverage into a soda empire.<\/p>\n Since the PepsiCo exit, Ellsworth has upgraded her house, bought homes for her mom and aunt, and now drives a $180,000 Cadillac Escalade. She spent roughly $27,000 on a stylist and recently took a $1 million family vacation to Europe. \u201cWhat\u2019s the point of having all this money if we can\u2019t have fun with it?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Allison Ellsworth doesn\u2019t believe in work-life balance\u2014and she has $100 million reasons why. The Poppi co-founder and her husband sold their soda company to PepsiCo for $1.95 billion last year, making them centimillionaires. But getting there meant taking business calls from the hospital bed after giving birth and breastfeeding on Zoom meetings. \u201cI think it\u2019s OK to live in chaos,\u201d Ellsworth told The Wall Street Journal<\/a> in a candid interview. \u201cA lot of people talk about work-life balance. I think if you want to be successful, you kind of have to sacrifice that.\u201d<\/p>\n The 39-year-old Austin entrepreneur landed her big break while nine months pregnant on \u201cShark Tank,\u201d securing a $400,000 investment from Rohan Oza that helped transform her apple-cider-vinegar beverage into a soda empire.<\/p>\n Since the PepsiCo exit, Ellsworth has upgraded her house, bought homes for her mom and aunt, and now drives a $180,000 Cadillac Escalade. She spent roughly $27,000 on a stylist and recently took a $1 million family vacation to Europe. \u201cWhat\u2019s the point of having all this money if we can\u2019t have fun with it?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n