"Pricklee isn't just a drink—it's the last living shot at the American dream I almost didn't get to take."
Kun's story starts long before his product ever hit a shelf. Born in China, raised in Canada, and trained as a pharmacist in the U.S., he followed the "safe" path that immigrant families quietly hope for: stability, a respected profession, a predictable life. But somewhere between the long hours in pharmacy school and the even longer hours in the real world, he realized that checking every box on someone else's definition of success still left a part of him restless.