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How Ryan Sprance and Dave Marcy Built Awestruck to a $31 Million/Year Marketing Agency
In early 2019, Dave Marcy was scrolling through social media when he saw a video of his old friend, Ryan Sprance, alongside Gary Vaynerchuk. Dave and Ryan had met 26 years earlier as co-workers at the WWE restaurant in Times Square. After that, they went their separate ways. Marcy spent 14 years in TV advertising, then started his own digital ad agency. Sprance worked in retail management, then built one of Instagram's first lifestyle brands before becoming a social media con


How Gage Benevento Built Haven Golf From a $13,000 Credit Card Into a $2.4 Million Brand
In May 2025, Gage Benevento walked into his manager's office at Amazon and quit. He had spent five years climbing the company ladder from overnight warehouse shifts to engineering program management to launching fulfillment centers across North America — and he was earning $200,000 a year. By every measure that matters in corporate America, he was set. But for the previous two and a half years, his attention had also been on a side project called Haven Golf, a small golf appa


The Rise of the Savannah Bananas; Millions in Debt to Baseball Empire
How the Savannah Bananas grew from millions in debt to the greatest show in sports. Over the course of the last 12 months, you’ve probably been scrolling TikTok and come across some unusual baseball videos. A seemingly random team, dressed in yellow, pulling off some of the craziest mid-game stunts that baseball has ever seen. The entire team and umpire doing a synchronized dance, the hitter, catcher, and umpire all doing the splits before summer saluting to first base, flami


How Ryan Sprance and Dave Marcy Built Awestruck to a $31 Million/Year Marketing Agency
In early 2019, Dave Marcy was scrolling through social media when he saw a video of his old friend, Ryan Sprance, alongside Gary Vaynerchuk. Dave and Ryan had met 26 years earlier as co-workers at the WWE restaurant in Times Square. After that, they went their separate ways. Marcy spent 14 years in TV advertising, then started his own digital ad agency. Sprance worked in retail management, then built one of Instagram's first lifestyle brands before becoming a social media con
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