Trading a Wall Street career for an artisan chocolate company might seem like a risky swap, but Evan Gappelberg has a knack for spotting trends.
As a stockbroker in the 1990’s, he saw the potential of video gaming and was instrumental in taking an upstart video gaming company called Take Two Interactive Software public.Take Two turned out to be a great investment and made early investors twenty times their money as it rode the video gaming trend, which is now a $66-billion-dollar-a-year industry.