Tag: Entrepreneurship
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 | Fortune
Happy Meal toys like Transformer figurines and Hot Wheels cars have sparked joy with little kids for decades—and now, one of the designers behind...
The CEOs of Apple, Airbnb, and PepsiCo agree on one thing: life as a business leader is incredibly lonely | Fortune
Being CEO has its many perks: Business leaders get to command the world’s most powerful companies, shape their legacies as pioneers of industry, and...
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 | Fortune
Serial entrepreneur Nicole Bernard Dawes seemed destined to build million-dollar food brands. As a kid, she grew up working the counter of her mother’s...
Exclusive: Talking Biz With Jordin Sparks, Byron And CeCe Scott
There comes a time in every young adult’s life when a serious conversation on the topic of investing and entrepreneurship needs to be had....
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This teacher quit crowded classrooms to run her own microschool—now she’s earning over $100K and finally doesn’t have to work a summer job | Fortune
But for Apryl Shackelford, those anxieties have been replaced with opportunity.
The 55-year-old is beginning her fourth year as the leader of Liberty City Primer,...
Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career’—he founded Reddit
However, for Alexis Ohanian, the start of Reddit all began at table 19 of his local Waffle House.
As a soon-to-be graduate from the University...
Canada Goose boss Dani Reiss avoided printing ‘CEO’ on business cards for years after taking over at 27
Dani Reiss was 27 when he took over his grandfather’s cold-weather clothing company, Canada Goose, in 2001.
Much like the heirs of Arnault and Murdoch,...
‘Million Dollar Listing’ star used to sling paninis, but now leads a team closing $15 billion in deals—because someone was ‘stupid enough’ to hire him
Fredrik Eklund has made it in U.S. real estate—the Million Dollar Listing New York star has helped close more than $15 billion in sales...
SoundHound’s millionaire boss founded 3 software startups before even graduating—he tells Gen Z who want to be their own boss ‘throw darts randomly’
As someone who immigrated from Iran at age 17 knowing little English, becoming a tech entrepreneur one day may have seemed like a far-fetched...