Maximilian Chillura, 29

It’s not often you hear children discussing gaps in the market. When Maximilian Chillura and his siblings visited his grandparents in Ohio as kids, there was an ice cream shop walking distance from the house that was touted as ‘the’ highlight of the visit. Upon returning home to Tampa the Chillura siblings longed to have the same amenity and even dreamed of franchising their own location.

“It was kind of childhood pipe dreams,” Chillura says. 

But was it really?