662: I Bet Everything On Sugar Free Candy — Now It Brings In $100 Million A Year

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan · May 14, 2026 · 54m

Daniel Kitay put everything he had—his savings, his mortgage, and two months before his first child was born—on a container ship full of sugar-free gummy lollies from Switzerland. When a $250,000 shipping bill landed before he'd sold a single product, he had no option but to make it work. Five years later, Funday Natural Sweets does over $100 million in retail sales across 8,000 stores in Australia alone, selling a product every single second. In this interview, the founder of Funday breaks down how he convinced Chemist Warehouse to submit a purchase order before he had funding, why he…