Founder's 'last throw of the dice' pays off with $17m sale to JLG
A decade of entrepreneurial ups and downs eventually came good. Just Life Group’s acquisition of dietary supplement business About Health for $17 million brings closure to a chapter in founder Dan King’s life that started with his mother’s diagnosis with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in 2005. Speaking to NBR from a secret fly fishing spot near Taupo today, King described what happened next as “a last throw of the dice” in his entrepreneurial career, after thinking he would be better off finding a job, possibly in Australia. Seeking to help his mother using natural remedies, K...