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Meet: Adam von Gootkin, the cofounder of the Onyx Spirits Company. Several months ago I reviewed Adam’s book, Living Proof: Onyx Moonshine’s Journey to Revive the American Spirit, Business Principles From the Mind of a Moonshiner, and was fascinated with his story. Adam flunked out of college after only one semester and decided to embark on an entrepreneurial adventure that has encompassed ecommerce, muscle cars and the music industry. Today, at the age of 31, he and his business partner have resurrected his family’s moonshine legacy—78 years after its inception, successfully introducing the world to the first ultra-premium American moonshine.