Yanni Hufnagel is a Jewish boy who grew up in Scarsdale. Growing up, Yanni loved sports, but he was cut off from the University basketball team. He graduated from Cornell University and resided in Boston. They say Yanni would like to become rich very soon, but he does not have a white color job. He is an assistant basketball coach at Harvard. Yanni has been leading the team to success; for the first time, the team won the Ivy League and produced a basketball phenom called Jeremy Lin, making Yanni the youngest basketball coach in the country.
Yanni Hufnagel is the founder of Lemon Perfect. Yanni did not know that his bottle of lemon water brand would go viral soon after it was launched. In 2020, without his knowledge, Beyonce posted the brand on her social media handle. Later Yanni realized that the celebrity was a fan of the Dragon Fruit Mango water brand. One of their investors visited Beyonce, and she saw the water in her fridge, and they made sure that they had connected the celebrity with the company. Being a fan of the drink, Beyonce was not in Yanni’s imagination. Recently, the drinking water company announced that Knowles Carter was among its supporter in the $31 million series A together with Melita’s Ventures, NNS Capital, Goat Rodeo Capital, Trousdale Ventures, and Beach Capital.
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According to Knowles-Carter, he does not take sugarless water. To Mr. Carter, it was comfortable decision to capitalize in a product that is great and is healthy but also, most importantly, allows choosing a fit routine to be reasonable and available to all. In 2017, Hufgnagel launched Lemon Perfect in Atlanta after a career as a college basketball coach for the University of Nevada, Reno. After an unforeseen meeting with a store owner who wanted to be a trainer, the store owner shared with Hufnagel a draft of a book he was writing about the Keto diet, which included recipes for lemon water.