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☆ How the $36 billion vitamin industry tricked a generation of adults into believing sugary gummies were the ticket to good health
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-07 | by ( Rachel Premack | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

But some consumer advocates and doctors worry that those supplements don't have as many benefits as people think. "Our gummy vitamins have been on fire," CEO Matt Farrell told investors in a July earnings call. He said that Hero Nutritionals, founded in 1995, created the first gummy vitamin for the American market. A Perrigo representative said it no longer manufactured gummy vitamins, and it did not respond to further inquiries.) But the doctor had something to admit: He takes a gummy vitamin every day.

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☆ The definitive story of how a controversial Florida businessman blew up MoviePass and burned hundreds of millions
▼ + stars: | 2019-09-13 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

In 2017, he became the CEO of data company Helios & Matheson Analytics. At that price MoviePass would start losing money when a subscriber used the service more than once a month. MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe and Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth after the company hit 1 million subscribers. The same day MoviePass reached 1 million subscribers, a milestone it hit faster than Netflix and Hulu. Related storiesTo draw a crowd, MoviePass blasted out an invitation to the Big Boi show to its then 2 million subscribers.

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