Browsing: female founders
Luana Lopes Lara: The 29-year-old ballerina is now the youngest female self-made billionaire
Following in the footsteps of Taylor Swift and Scale AI’s Lucy Guo, Luana Lopes Lara has just been crowned the…
Founder of $100 million company never unplugs from work, but encourages her team to have work-life balance: ‘They didn’t sign up to be entrepreneurs’
Founders can find it hard to step away from work when their company rests on their shoulders. The concept of…
This founder went from designing Happy Meal toys to making prosthetic skulls for a living—and her company now rakes in $20 million a year
Happy Meal toys like Transformer figurines and Hot Wheels cars have sparked joy with little kids for decades—and now, one…
Founder of $100 million company says she quit her day job to rebuild her father’s Cape Cod chip empire—and there ‘wasn’t time’ to worry about nepotism
Serial entrepreneur Nicole Bernard Dawes seemed destined to build million-dollar food brands. As a kid, she grew up working the…
Spanx billionaire founder kept the brand a secret—even from family—for a year. If she hadn’t, she says she’d probably still be selling fax machines
Spanx founder Sara Blakely turned her $5,000 savings from selling fax machines into a shapewear empire. By keeping her idea…
Ex-Applebee exec was told she’d never be CEO—she bought the chain and fired her naysayer: ‘We don’t need two of us, so I’m gonna have to let you go’
Many professionals will encounter naysayers who believe they can’t achieve their ambitious goals, whether that be bad bosses, skeptical investors,…
Self-made multimillionaire behind $4 billion Skims empire says she was ‘using AI like a 42-year-old woman’—until Mark Cuban gave her a wake up call
The British-born entrepreneur, Emma Grede, best known as the founding partner of Kim Kardashian’s $4 billion shapewear empire Skims and…
Female founders from brands like Outdoor Voices and the Wing are ready for a comeback. We should be too
In today’s edition: Linda Yaccarino’s new job, a business opportunity in sports, and female founders are trying again—and that’s a…
Exclusive: The founders of SoulCycle built a startup for relationships, then pivoted to GLP-1 support groups. Now its assets are being acquired by WeightWatchers
In today’s edition: Jane Fraser’s meeting with Trump, some dark horse candidates for Fed chair, and a startup pivot that…
In today’s edition: the impact of BLS turmoil, Martha Stewart gets into skincare, and this year’s Most Powerful People in…












