Patrick Schwarzenegger’s Next Big Flex

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After more than a decade as an actor, the 31-year-old White Lotus star is finally having his day in the Hollywood sun. But acting isn’t the only thing on his mind—lucrative investments and a growing protein bar company are keeping his plate plenty full.  Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonemelvin/2025/05/31/patrick-schwarzenegger-interview-white-lotus-mosh-bar/  Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript  Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com  Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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00:00Today on Forbes, Patrick Schwarzenegger's next big flex.

00:05Jet-lagged and hungry, Patrick Schwarzenegger eyes a craft services table stacked with pastries and sandwiches

00:12before turning his attention to the sugarfish sushi delivery on the table in front of him.

00:17The 31-year-old actor and entrepreneur has barely had time to catch his breath in the past two months,

00:23having traveled to 15 countries to promote his cult HBO series, The White Lotus.

00:28He reaches into his pocket to pull out two Mosh Protein Bars, the brand he co-founded in 2021.

00:35He says, quote,

00:37Much like his protein shake-obsessed White Lotus character, Saxon Ratliff, Schwarzenegger watches what he eats.

00:51The similarities continue.

00:52He also graduated from an elite university with a business degree,

00:55comes from a powerful family and is no stranger to wealth.

00:59But while Saxon had yet to move beyond his luxe life he inherited from his parents,

01:04Schwarzenegger is finally making a name for himself, in business and on screen.

01:09The son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, he grew up in a world of the Hollywood and political elite

01:15as the child of an actor-turned-billionaire California governor and a broadcast journalist who happens to be a Kennedy.

01:22He fell in love with acting early, often visiting his father's movie sets as a boy.

01:28Schwarzenegger admits, quote,

01:29There were times where I was like, oh god, these are big shoes to fill.

01:33Should I change my last name and have a stage name?

01:36Those things crossed my mind.

01:37But ultimately, I'm very proud of my dad and the life that he's given me,

01:41and the last name he's built, and the brand he's built.

01:45It was his father's penchant for business that Schwarzenegger adopted first.

01:49His mother remembers him as a pre-teen glued to the TV when Shark Tank came on

01:53and asking for a few hundred bucks for his birthday to start an E-Trade account to buy Apple stock.

01:59In 2008, Schwarzenegger, then 15 years old, interned for film producer John Davis,

02:05a large investor in Wetzel's Pretzels, who had just sold his stake, with an investor group,

02:10for around $36 million, or 13 times his initial investment.

02:14That caught the high schooler's attention, especially when he learned that Elise and Rick Wetzel

02:19were founding a new fast-casual pizza venture.

02:23Schwarzenegger's parents loaned him around $50,000 to invest in Blaze Pizza,

02:27joining investors including LeBron James.

02:30Six years later, in 2014, Schwarzenegger opened the first of his two Blaze franchises in his native Los Angeles.

02:38In 2015, nearly eight years after his initial investment,

02:41Schwarzenegger, then a senior in college, sold his shares of Blaze for at least $2 million, Forbes estimates.

02:49He then paid his parents back for the initial loan and invested in other Better For You brands,

02:54including the hydration powder brand Liquid IV and two prebiotic sodas, Olipop and Poppy,

03:01the latter of which sold for $2 billion earlier this year.

03:05As his portfolio grew, so did his acting credits.

03:08When the pandemic brought the film industry to a standstill in 2020,

03:12he moved in with his mother, and the two launched Mosh,

03:15a protein bar company designed to promote brain health.

03:19Shriver is a longtime advocate for Alzheimer's research

03:21after witnessing the disease's effects on her late father, Sergeant Shriver,

03:26who helped found the Peace Corps, Head Start, and other Kennedy-era programs.

03:30Mosh contains ingredients such as cytocholine, lion's mane mushrooms, and omega-3s,

03:36which advocates believe improve cognition.

03:39The duo has personally invested nearly $1 million so far growing Mosh.

03:44Schwarzenegger says, quote,

03:45But then it was also COVID when the supply chain was terrible.

03:49Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.

03:53Otherwise, their timing was perfect.

03:56The burgeoning protein bar industry,

03:58which had combined revenue of around $5 billion in 2024,

04:02experienced a major resurgence after 2020

04:05when consumers became less limited by COVID policies.

04:09Mosh had $4 million in sales in 2022,

04:12its first full year.

04:13According to Jeff Gamzee, Mosh's president and COO,

04:17this year, Mosh is on track to book more than $20 million in revenue

04:21and is raising money again this summer

04:23with the hope of accelerating growth in retail and becoming profitable.

04:28For full coverage, check out Simone Melvin's piece on Forbes.com.

04:34This is Kieran Meadows from Forbes.

04:36Thanks for tuning in.

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