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GT Dave is an American businessman who is the founder and CEO of the kombucha company GT’s Living Foods. In the late 1990s, he was the first to put kombucha on store shelves and his company currently owns 40% of the U.S. kombucha market.

In 2019, Dave donated one million dollars to Kombucha Brewers International in an effort to solidify a “standard of identity to protect the integrity of the product.”

GT's Kombucha continued to grow and in December 1997, when he was selling 30 to 50 cases per day, he rented a 2,000-square-foot industrial space in Gardena and began to hire employees. That was when Whole Foods Market called to inquire about distributing his kombucha. He initially hesitated, but ultimately decided to accept their offer, stressing the importance of preserving the integrity of his product.

In 1996, Dave’s older brother Justin passed away due to bone cancer. After his death, Dave's parents divorced. He remains close with his mother Laraine, whose cancer recovery is featured in the marketing of GT's Living Foods. His eldest brother, Adam, graduated from Louisiana State University's medical school in 2008.

Dave was the first to put kombucha on store shelves. His first sale of kombucha (which he marketed as GT's Kombucha) was to Erewhon Natural Foods in 1995, when he sold two cases (24 bottles) which nearly sold out in the first day. From his bedroom, he would call buyers, distributors and store owners, using different voices to pose as different employees.

In 1994, Laraine was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a Lumpectomy and a year of chemotherapy and radiation. During her battle with breast cancer she drank the homebrewed kombucha and after she beat the disease attributed it to the health benefits of their kombucha.

In 1992, a family friend gifted them a SCOBY which had been given to her by a Buddhist nun. Dave's parents began homebrewing kombucha when Dave was a freshman at Beverly Hills High School. Dave's parents and older brother Adam immediately took to the new drink, however Dave thought it was weird, later recalling that "I thought, 'everyone thinks we're The Addams Family.'"

GT Dave was born in 1978 to Laraine and Michael Dave as the youngest of three sons.