Madam C.J. Walker, America’s First Female Self-Made Millionaire
Female entrepreneurs face a difficult road, even in the modern day. For women in business, dealing with the inequality and sexism that remains after decades
Female entrepreneurs face a difficult road, even in the modern day. For women in business, dealing with the inequality and sexism that remains after decades
Long before there was Oprah and Michael Jordan representing African Americans on the Forbes 400 list, there was John H. Johnson. The media pioneer’s successes
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Jamie Kern Lima built herself a global makeup brand and empire with IT Cosmetics. The makeup brand, which was later acquired by L’Oréal for
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Playing board games and studying philosophy at a young age sparked a vision to help evolve humanity for billionaire venture capitalist Reid Hoffman. His
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