{"id":852576,"date":"2025-06-01T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/this-gen-x-entrepreneur-launched-a-multimillion-dollar-business-with-2500-on-a-credit-card-he-ditched-his-9-to-5-and-now-works-with-disney-and-delta\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:12:08","slug":"this-gen-x-entrepreneur-launched-a-multimillion-dollar-business-with-2500-on-a-credit-card-he-ditched-his-9-to-5-and-now-works-with-disney-and-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/this-gen-x-entrepreneur-launched-a-multimillion-dollar-business-with-2500-on-a-credit-card-he-ditched-his-9-to-5-and-now-works-with-disney-and-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"This Gen X entrepreneur launched a multimillion-dollar business with $2,500 on a credit card\u2014He ditched his 9-to-5, and now works with Disney and Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-cy=\"article-wrapper\" id=\"content\" role=\"article\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Hella Cocktail Co founders\" data-content-placement=\"primary_image\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\"   src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hella-06-founders-2269-1.jpg?w=1440&#038;q=90\"><\/p>\n<p>Hella Cocktail Co. cofounder and CEO Jomaree Pinkard quit his NFL consulting career and turned a hobby with his two best friends into a multimillion-dollar business.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Hella Cocktail Co.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/06\/01\/gen-x-entrepreneur-hella-cocktail-co-career-success\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Emma Burleigh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hella Cocktail Co. cofounder and CEO Jomaree Pinkard quit his NFL consulting career and turned a hobby with his two best friends into a multimillion-dollar business. Courtesy of Hella Cocktail Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":852577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27830,2115],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-852576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneur","8":"category-launched"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}