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                                                        The company, which the duo recently sold to <a href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/DGE-GB" target="_blank">Diageo</a> for <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/21/george-clooney-just-sold-his-tequila-business-for-1-billion.html">as much as $1 billion</a>, was never meant for the public. It started out as a private collection of tequila for the co-founders and their friends and family.
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