9 women millionaires who have achieved everything themselves
'05.05.2019'
Source: Womo
These women, aged 32 to 69, include both MBA and college dropouts, a Silicon Valley CEO and a model-turned-tycoon. In total, they own $ 9,7 billion. They recently appeared on the same Forbes cover - we are talking about each of them.
Sarah Blakely
- Condition: $ 1 billion
Sarah Blakely runs Spanx, writes Womo. Previously, she was among the top managers of Nike and it is her merit that the brand has expanded and now includes not only sportswear, but also clothing for outdoor activities, despite the fact that she had been in this position for only two years. However, who had once started as a sales agent, Sarah decided to create her own company of corrective underwear and invested $ 29 into such underwear in 5000 for years, which allows everyone to wear anything, including white slacks, without exception. She is the sole owner of the company, and since 2015, Blakely has become a co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks basketball club.
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Sofia Amoruso
- Condition: $ 280 million
The only member of the billionaire millennial generation to make her way outside the entertainment industry, Sofia Amoruso made her fortune online. Her fashion company is called Nasty Gal and was founded by Amoruso when she was 22 years old. Then she sold mainly vintage items for young fashionistas. Ten years later, Nasty Gal now competes with H&M and ASOS, with revenues of $ 300 million this year, up from barely $ 2012 million in 100. Amoruso has published her autobiographical book #Girlboss and is preparing to release an autobiographical comedy series on Netflix.
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Diane hendrix
- Condition: $ 4,9 billion
“We became the largest distributor in the country and delivered roofing materials to large and small roofers,” Diana Hendrix said in an interview about the company she founded in 1982 with her husband Ken. When Ken died at 2007, Diana refused to sell the company. She coped with the 2008 crisis of the year and even bought a rival company, Bradco Supply, at 2010. The company's sales over the past 10 years have more than doubled.
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Cathy Ireland
- Condition: $ 360 million
Supermodel Katy Ireland has built a licensed empire, giving her name, taste and marketing skills to more than 17000 products. And all this is sold so successfully that it gives the trading network a profit of $ 2.6 a millirad. Katie herself was opened by Elite modeling agency when she was 16 years old. While working as a model, Kathy continued to invent side business projects. One of them shot - furniture. Entering the furniture market, Ireland decided that its brand should have some content: The “Solutions for families, especially for busy mothers” approach has now become the company's motto. For example, carpets were treated with a special agent to protect against spilled liquids, which preserves colors and prolongs life of carpets, and the tables are designed with rounded corners so that running children do not receive injuries from sharp corners.
Meg Whitman
- Condition: $ 2,1 billion
Meg Whitman was well known as a successful CEO at Hewlett Packard, and after the division of the company in 2015, she heads the company Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which sells servers and software. She held senior positions also in Hasbro and Walt Disney, and she is also known as the head of eBay, raising his income from $ 5 million in 1998 to $ 8 billion in 2008 the year she left this post.
Tony Co
- Condition: $ 260 million
Tony Ko moved to the United States from Korea when she was 13 years old. After classes, she helped her parents, who had a warehouse. In the 1999 year, when she was 25 years old, she noticed how big the gap in price was between cosmetics from the supermarket and drugstores. Thanks to her involvement in the family business, she had connections in the world of wholesalers and start-up capital, so she took a chance and launched the NYX Cosmetics brand - elite cosmetics at a bargain price. In the first year, Ko received $ 4 million on retail sales. In 2014, she sold this brand to L'Oréal, the value of the company then reached $ 500 million. In the spring of 2016, the Co. launched the Perverse Sunglasses brand of stylish and flimsy sunglasses for $ 40- $ 60 per pair.
Katrina Lake
- Condition: $ 120 million
Katrina Lake is the creator of Stitch Fix, an online retailer who chooses clothes for shoppers based on statistics and stylist advice. Last year, sales reached $ 250 million, showing that a San Francisco startup became a convenient shopping tool for very busy women. Although Lake has not earned a boundary for the list of the richest sums of $ 250 million, she is on the list of promising entrepreneurs and, in the near future, will soon enter the top 60 of the richest business women in the world.
Dorothy Herman
- Condition: $ 270 million
Dorothy Hermann, the richest self-made maid in the world of American real estate, co-owns a solid firm in New York, Douglas Elliman, which sells homes for a total of $ 22 billion a year, and its income is $ 600 million. The company employs more than 6 thousands of agents in 85 offices. When Dorothy was 10 years old, she and her parents got into a car accident in which her mother died, and her father suffered serious injuries. The very baby was thrown out of the car. Dorothy became a mother in 19 years, and in 80 she began working as a broker in the real estate market for Merrill Lynch on Long Island. Soon, the company was bought by Prudential Long Island, and already in 90-s, Dorothy herself acquired most of this company.
Liz Elting
- Condition: $ 390 million
Liz Elting is a CEO of TransPerfect, one of the largest multilingual translation firms, with $ 505 million in annual revenue. The offices of this company are located in 90 cities around the world. Liz Elting founded the company in 1992 with her fellow student Phil Shaw, who was once her boyfriend. Today their company is based in New York and employs 4000 people and serves 11 customers, including AT&T, Google and Wal-Mart.
