By 24, I Built a Million-Dollar Brand — Then My Parents Sent Me a $500,000 “Childhood Invoice”

I would lose the inventory. If I couldn’t fund the ads, the launch would collapse before it started. If the launch failed, my margins for the fourth quarter evaporated, which meant I couldn’t pay bonuses, renegotiate vendor terms, or invest in new product lines. My reputation—the thing I had spent years building one honest customer interaction at a continue reading …