Tom Huddleston Jr.

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr. |Raffi Paul

Industry advisors told Primal Kitchen co-founder and CEO Mark Sisson that he was "crazy" to try selling jars of mayonnaise for nearly $10 each, he says. The food blogger took the risk anyway, launching his paleo condiment and dressing brand in 2015 due to "a combination of naivete and hubris on my part," says Sisson, 71. Though Sisson's inexperience in the condiments business was a drawback, Primal Kitchen had a different significant advantage.

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr.

Primal Kitchen launched a $10 mayo and then sold to Kraft Heinz for $200 million 3 years laterUsing profits from his existing supplements company, Mark Sisson, along with Morgan Zanotti, founded Primal Kitchen in 2015 with the goal of creating better-for-you condiments and sauces — free from artificial sweeteners and canola oil. The company's flagship product, a $10 avocado oil-based mayonnaise, sold out in just one week.

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr.

Howard Schultz's advice for CEOs on weathering economic uncertainty is simple: "Serve every customer and partner beyond their expectations," the former Starbucks CEO wrote in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday. That's what Schultz tells the business leaders who reach out to him for insight into handling the global markets' current uncertainty, amid President Donald Trump's tariff policies, he wrote.

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr.

Satya Nadella received some valuable words of wisdom from his predecessor when he took over as Microsoft CEO in 2014. After Steve Ballmer announced his retirement from Microsoft — where he worked for more than 30 years, including 14 years as the company's second-ever CEO — he shared some advice with his successor, Nadella told CNBC at the time.

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr.

This story is part of CNBC Make It's The Moment series, where highly successful people reveal the critical moment that changed the trajectory of their lives and careers, discussing what drove them to make the leap into the unknown. Six years after Aaron Levie dropped out of college to start a business in his parents' attic with three friends, he faced a decision so nerve-wracking that he spent months "freaked out" and sleepless, he says.