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Growth Mavericks

Building a $100M Business Means Eating Glass

Aug 20, 2026 · 43m

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Growth Mavericks Podcast — Russell Breuer, Founder of Spot & Tango What does it take to go from cooking dog food in a 700-square-foot apartment to building a nine-figure business—and survive the chaos that comes with growing that fast? In this re-release of the Growth Mavericks Podcast, Adam Callinan sits down with Russell Breuer, founder of Spot & Tango, to discuss the realities of building and scaling one of the fastest-growing direct-to-consumer pet health companies in the country. Russell shares how Spot & Tango began as a side hustle while he was still working full-time in private equity. He and his wife cooked and packaged the first orders themselves, found their first customer…