LABUBU is famous now (thanks to Pop Mart), but do you know the man who survived three major setbacks to bring it to life? You’ve probably heard of LABUBU, but you might not know Wang Ning. He’s the founder of Pop Mart, the company that turned blind box collectibles into a cultural phenomenon — where young people willingly spend hundreds just to pull a rare figurine from a box. But the road to success wasn’t cute or collectible. It was messy, lonely, and full of near-collapse