George Clooney Accidentally Started A Billion Dollar Tequila Company Because He Likes Drinking Tequila

(BusinessInsider) – George Clooney created a tequila company on a whim and now it’s being sold for $1 billion, CNBC is reporting. The idea behind Casamigos, the brainchild of Clooney and his two friends, Rande Gerber (Cindy Crawford’s husband), and Michael Meldman, was born when Clooney and Gerber bought neighboring properties in Mexico and got into drinking tequila. They got so into the drink they decided to create their own, Clooney told CNBC. “Our idea was to make the best-tasting, smoothest tequila whose taste didn’t have to be covered up with salt or lime,” the founders claim on their Facebook page. Initially, the spirit was only made for their own consumption but after two years the distillery said that they had ordered so many “samples” that they would now need to have the drink licensed. In 2013, they launched the company and made the drink available to the public. It became one of the fastest-growing tequila brands. The business is now being sold to Diageo for $1 billion.

Fucking CLOONEY!

I tell ya, any other rich person falling assbackwards into a billion dollar buyout from Diageo and I’d be pissed. Livid. I’d be downright distraught, folks. But you know what? I’m totally at peace with Clooney doing it. I’m happy for him, in fact.

But, man, can you imagine having this happen to you? Start brewing a beer at your Mexican “property” because you want a really, really good tequila then drink so much of it over the next two years that you have to get the drink licensed so you’re just like, “Well, fuck it. I guess we’ll put it on sale” and before you know it you’re getting a BILLION dollar buyout? That’s the fucking dream.

Guys always fantasize about doing shit like this with their friends. We talk about how awesome it would be to own a bar or, when we’re feeling particularly dreamy, a sports franchise. Clooney and his already rich pals did that by accident. For two years they drank awesome tequila and wanted to keep it a secret from the world, when their hand was forced they turned it into a billion dollar business. Finally, something goes right for the guy who slept with every woman in Hollywood before marrying a gorgeous, international lawyer.