The Highly Unusual Company Behind Sriracha, The World’s Coolest Hot Sauce • Discoverology

The Highly Unusual Company Behind Sriracha, The World’s Coolest Hot Sauce

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David Tran, CEO of Huy Fong Foods, shuns publicity, professes not to care about profits, hardly knows where his sauces are sold, and probably leaves millions of dollars on the table every year.

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