Allison Ellsworth took calls from the hospital after giving birth and breastfed on Zooms. Now she’s worth over $100 million. By Jonathan Small | edited by Dan Bova | May 11, 2026 Allison Ellsworth doesn’t believe in work-life balance —and she has $100 million reasons why. The Poppi co-founder and her husband sold their soda company to PepsiCo for $1.95 billion last year, making them centimillionaires. But getting there meant taking business calls from the hospital bed after giving birth and breastfeeding on Zoom meetings. “I think it’s OK to live in chaos,” Ellsworth told The Wall Street Journal in a candid interview. “A lot of people talk about work-life balance. I think if you want to be successful, you kind of have to sacrifice that.” The 39-year-old Austin entrepreneur landed her big break while nine months pregnant on “Shark Tank,” securing a $400,000 investment from Rohan Oza that helped transform her apple-cider-vinegar beverage into a soda empire.…