After revealing a stellar inaugural class of 40 Below 40 honorees final 12 months, Beverage Dynamics earlier this 12 months introduced a second crop of younger leaders that’s equally spectacular. Beneath is simply one of many 40 wonderful people serving to innovate and transfer our business ahead:
Aimy Steadman
Cofounder and COO: BeatBox Drinks
Age: 36
First Trade Job: BeatBox Drinks
Favourite Drink: Inexperienced Apple or Fruit Punch BeatBox flavors (outdoors of BeatBox, spicy cocktails equivalent to a Jalapeño Margarita or espresso cocktails like a Carajillo)
Cofounding BeatBox Drinks when she was simply 23 years previous, Aimy Steadman obtained began within the beverage alcohol business at a younger age. Since BeatBox’s debut in 2012, Steadman has helped the model hit a number of milestones, together with surpassing $100 million in annual income and turning into the top-selling RTD single in U.S. comfort shops.
A proud immigrant-turned U.S. citizen, Steadman was born in Kuwait and beforehand lived in Syria. Because the COO, she oversees sustainability compliance and has led the cost with getting BeatBox to realize B Corp standing.
The corporate additionally not too long ago gained a Finest Place to Work award, which Steadman is especially pleased with.
Whereas constructing BeatBox into the main model it’s at present, Steadman says one of many largest challenges she’s confronted has been navigating rejections and setbacks.
“We confronted numerous rejections from potential traders, retail consumers/distributors and different skepticism through the years rising BeatBox,” she explains. “You have to study from every rejection and make your online business stronger, and generally study when to not change something, keep true to your self and your model, and that not each potential associate will likely be a match.”
Steadman’s work doesn’t cease at BeatBox. She regularly participates in talking occasions, equivalent to for her alma mater, the McCombs College of Businessin Austin, TX. She additionally ceaselessly speaks to aspiring (or present) entrepreneurs, providing them recommendation and telling them about her experiences.
Steadman can also be a board member of the Naturally Community, Naturally Austin, and Entrepreneurs Group: Austin.
On prime of setting targets for herself, Steadman units herself up for achievement by assembly month-to-month with fellow entrepreneurs.
“They supply reflection again to me on issues I may not discover on my own and assist me keep on monitor,” she says. “They’ve been a tremendous help system for me since we began assembly in 2018!”
