Lemontree: This Founder Is Using Tech & Hospitality To Fight Food Insecurity By Shannon Farley During the pandemic, hunger in the U.S. spiked. 1 in 7 Americans experienced food insecurity in 2020, compared to 1 in 9 in 2019 (Feeding America). Covid-19 exposed glaring gaps in our social safety nets, and they still exist over two years into the pandemic.…
Tamara Warren Is Personalizing The Car Buying Experience For Women By Lydia T. Blanco In her own words, Tamara Warren, co-founder and CEO of Le Car will tell you that she is a mother, wife, daughter, writer, businesswoman, and feminist. She likely won’t lead with how she got into the driver’s seat of her life after overcoming adversity. With a recognizable byline…
Gab Waller Went From Personal Shopper To Global Empire By Karin Eldor For the world’s most famous personal shopper — or rather the go-to person for sourcing items that are sold-out, hard-to-find or from a previous season — the magic is in the details. Gab Waller has not only disrupted the luxury fashion space, she has created an entirely new industry…
Amber Fillerup Clark On Going From Influencer To Entrepreneur By Amy Shoenthal Amber Fillerup Clark has been sharing her life online for over a decade, dubbing her an “OG influencer,” a role which often overshadows her other role as a beauty entrepreneur. After launching a line of hair extensions called bfb hair in 2016, she expanded her haircare empire when she debuted dae hair with…
How Italian-Based Gia Borghini Became A Global Brand By Karin Eldor Whether you’ve spotted Gia Borghini’s exquisite silhouettes on celebrities like Hailey Bieber, Ashley Graham or Gabrielle Union-Wade, the world’s top influencers, or on the pages of online stockists like Farfetch and the shelves of fashion purveyors Kith, the Italian-based footwear brand has created its own category of elevated shoes…
Bella Hadid On Breaking Into The Business World By Gabby Shacknai It’s a seemingly perfect Saturday morning in Los Angeles: the sun is shining bright, there’s not a cloud in the sky, and Bella Hadid is preparing to take the stage at Create & Cultivate’s 2022 Conference. The supermodel and Kin Euphorics cofounder has been anxiously awaiting this moment since…
The Goldman Sachs Alum Helping Young People Manage Their Finances By Amanda Breen “One of the hardest things about adulthood is that it is undefined — no one gives you the playbook when you start working, and you have to figure out a lot of things yourself,” says Genevieve Bellaire, founder and CEO of Realworld. Bellaire graduated with an MBA and JD from…
How Suneera Madhani Found A Smarter Way To Process Payments By Yola Robert Suneera Madhani’s fintech company, Stax, has processed over $23 billion in payments for 22,000 businesses. With a growth rate of more than 500% year over year, Stax has tripled its valuation leading the company into unicorn territory. But Madhani’s beginnings with Stax weren’t always this gleaming. The first-generation…
Being Nimble & Strategic Helped Her Overcome Business Obstacles By Geri Stengel In October 2017, Ginger Bowman purchased a commercial printing business. In the five years since, she has overcome three significant challenges by being flexible and pivoting. High customer concentration. An industry that was set in its ways. The pandemic. Some in the industry thought Bowman would fail. But,…
Jade Watson Has Built SickBird Into A Powerhouse Production Company By MeiMei Fox Digitally-native production company SickBird Productions partners with brands, studios and talent to launch original content. Their work includes three Facebook Watch Originals for The Shade Room — The Shade Brunch, Thick House and Love Locked — ten Snapchat Discover series, three of which are SickBird Originals, and branded content for TikTok including Noah…