Meet the engineer who sold his company for almost $200 million and used the money to open a chocolate factory
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When Todd Masonis and his partner sold their startup to Comcast in 2008 for a rumored sum between $150 and $170 million, he took a "fun year." Masonis excavated a Roman fort in England, biked across Scotland, and toured family-run chocolate factories in France.
It was in France where something clicked for the serial entrepreneur. He returned to the US and cofounded Dandelion Chocolate, a small-batch, bean-to-bar chocolate maker in - where else - a garage.
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