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Patience and Faith Built S'Well into a $100 Million-Dollar Brand

She could have gotten a real job. She didn't.
Sarah Kauss at S’well’s New York City headquarters.

When founder Sarah Kauss finally made the leap from making manual invoices in Excel to using QuickBooks, in 2010, she called in an accounting pro to get her set up. He looked at her statements -- and the scant $2,000 she had left in savings -- as well as the rent on her New York City apartment, where she was working and storing the 3,000 high-end water bottles she hoped to

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