Rebel Girls Awesome Entrepreneurs: 25 Tales of Women Building Businesses

by Rebel Girls, Sandra Oh Lin

Overview

Rebel Girls Mean Business: 25 Tales of Entrepreneurs and Investors showcases influential CEOs, entrepreneurs, founders, and investors who have used their creativity and ingenuity to develop clever ideas, launch new products, build businesses, disrupt industries, support others, and invest in the future. Rebel Girls Mean Business is part of the award-winning Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series.

Learn how Aileen Lee went from selling tie-dye T-shirts at school to becoming an angel investor. Discover the magic of molecules with Nobel Prize-winning scientist and entrepreneur Jennifer Doudna. And sip on sweet lemonade while saving honeybees with founder Mikaila Ulmer.

This collection of 25 stories follows in the footsteps of the New York Times best-selling series Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.

Rebel Girls Mean Business celebrates powerful entrepreneurs and investors from Madam C.J. Walker to Belinda Wong. It is illustrated by female and nonbinary artists from around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781953424235
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	05/10/2022
Series:	Rebel Girls Minis
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform empowerment brand dedicated to helping raise the most inspired and confident global generation of girls through content, experiences, products, and community. Originating from an international best-selling children’s book, Rebel Girls amplifies stories of real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography, and field of excellence. With a growing community of nearly 20 million self-identified Rebel Girls spanning more than 100 countries, the brand engages with Generation Alpha through its book series, award-winning podcast, events and merchandise. In 2021, Rebel Girls launched the Dream On app to re-imagine sleep routines by sharing empowering stories with a screen-free audio experience; and inspired girls everywhere to Celebrate Black Girl Magic with a new book, merchandise and events. To date, they have sold 7 million books in 51 languages and reached 14 million podcast downloads.

Table of Contents

Tentative Table of Contents:

• Aileen Lee, VC (Cowboy Ventures), USA
• Anjali Sud, CEO (Vimeo), USA
• Belinda Wong, CEO (Starbucks China), China
• Jennifer Doudna, CEO and Scientist, USA
• Julie Chen, Founder and CEO, UK and China
• Kathy Hannun, Co-founder and President (Dandelion Energy), USA
  
• Katrina Lake, CEO (Stitch Fix), USA
• Madam C.J. Walker, Founder (first Black woman millionaire in America), USA
• Magi Richani, CEO and Founder (Nobell Foods), USA
  
• Mar Hershenson, VC (Pear VC), Spain and USA
  
• Margarete Steiff, Seamstress and Founder (Steiff), Germany
• Maria Teresa Kumar, Founder and President (Voto Latino), Colombia and USA
• Melanie Perkins, CEO and Co-founder (Canva), Australia
  
• Mikaila Ulmer, Founder and CEO (Me & the Bees Lemonade), USA
• Nina Vaca, Chairman & CEO (Pinnacle Group), Ecuador & USA
  
• Noura Sakkijha, CEO and Co-founder  (Mejuri), Jordan and Canada
  
• Paige Brown, CEO and Founder (WindBorne Systems), USA
• Purva Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder (Lily AI), India and USA
• Rihanna, Founder and CEO (Fenty Beauty), Barbados and USA
• Sarah Friar, CEO (Nextdoor), Ireland and USA
• Solveiga Pakštaitė, Inventor, Founder and Director (Mimica), Lithuania, Norway, and UK
  
• Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO and VC (TaskRabbit), USA
  
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• Ursula Burns, CEO (VEON), USA