Dan Richardson

Against all reasonable expectations—including his own—Chubble Gum Founder Dan Richardson has built a global brand out of stickers, stationery, sarcasm, and the uncomfortable truth that adulthood is exhausting. What began as an attempt to earn enough money to buy art supplies has become Chubble Gum, a multi-million-dollar, humor-driven, stationery and lifestyle empire whose humorous take on anxiety, burnout, depression, and the general disaster that is called being a “grown up” has connected with generations around the world. After launching just 15 of his self-drawn designs on Etsy in 2019 and going viral on TikTok during the pandemic, Richardson has proved that mental health doesn't always need another inspirational quote—sometimes it just needs a cute raccoon in the form of a sticke...