Fayl Tales
Behind every startup success story is a trail of mistakes, pivots, broken plans and brilliant comebacks.
Fayl Tales is the podcast where entrepreneurs, founders, investors and early employees share the real side of building something new - the failures that shaped them, the lessons they learned the hard way, and the resilience it takes to keep going.
Hosted by Loveth, each episode dives into the raw, funny and honest moments most business stories leave out - so you can learn faster, fail smarter, and feel less alone on your own journey.
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Fayl Tales
He Bet His Life Savings on Limoncello and Its Working ~ Stefan Di Benedetto
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Hey Crew!
Picture this. You win world's best liquor. You're in Qantas first class lounges. You're in over 500 venues across the country. And you got here by betting every dollar you had on a family limoncello recipe.
That's Stefan Di Benedetto's story.
Stefan is the founder of Solbevi, the world's first limoncello spritz in a can, born from an Italian family tradition and $300k of his own savings. He quit construction, watched three capital raises collapse at the last minute, ran out of stock before the Formula One, and kept going anyway.
We cover:
- The Saturday afternoon that sparked the world's first limoncello spritz in a can
- How he landed Dan Murphy's 9 days after launching by guessing a category manager's email
- Three capital raises. Three last minute collapses.
- The Formula One stock disaster. He ignored his gut and paid for it.
- How a conversation with a stranger on a Qantas flight led to his cans being served in first class lounges
- His fiancée's breaking point after two years of never seeing him and what finally changed
- Why his advice to new founders is "don't do it" (and then the real answer underneath that)
One of the most entertaining and honest episodes we've had on the show. Stefan is the kind of founder who just makes you want to back yourself.
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