Women Founder Stories
Dec 9, 2025
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7 min read
This CEO went from being rejected by Google four times to building one of the most advanced AI platforms in the world.
Dec 2, 2025
6 min read
This 62 year old CEO went back to school at 40, then became only the second Black woman in history to lead a Fortune 500 company.
Nov 25, 2025
This 71 year old founder was born during segregation, then became the first Black woman in America to build a billion-dollar business.
Nov 18, 2025
This 50 year old CEO started her company with just $500 as a newly single mom — then built it into a billion-dollar American fashion empire.
Nov 12, 2025
5 min read
This 41 year old CEO made history as one of the first immigrant women in America to sell her company for $500 million.
Nov 5, 2025
This 38-year-old CEO started her first business selling Beanie Babies as a kid and went on to build one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies in the world.
Oct 28, 2025
This 43-year-old actress-turned-entrepreneur founded a company born from her own health struggles and went on to help create one of the first woman-led consumer brands to reach a billion-dollar valuation.
Oct 21, 2025
This 43-year-old CEO co-founded a company with her husband, then took his job as CEO, and became one of the first women in the world to lead a tech company valued at over a billion dollars through an IPO.
Oct 15, 2025
This 64-year-old CEO was told to retire because she was too “old.” Instead, she became the first woman in history to found a bank in the United Kingdom — and turned it into a multibillion-dollar fintech success story.
Oct 7, 2025
This 63-year-old CEO went from a working-class Latina family in Los Angeles to creating one of the most iconic beauty products in history. Here’s how.
Sep 23, 2025
This young entrepreneur went from startup exile to ringing the Nasdaq bell with her infant son. Here’s how.
Sep 3, 2025
She maxed out her credit cards to build her startup, scaled it to $50M+, sold it, and now leads AI for one of the world’s biggest companies.
Aug 26, 2025
She turned down paid job offers to become an unpaid intern who built a $300M subscription business, powered an IPO, and became a CEO.
Aug 6, 2025
She transformed a struggling video platform into a multi-billion dollar company and became one of the youngest women to take a startup public.
Jul 30, 2025
She returned at 63 to lead UPS through one of the greatest global supply chain challenges of our time. Learn how she did it.
Jul 23, 2025
She turned a vision for reasoning agents into one of the most well-funded AI startups. Today, she's reshaping what it means to be human in the age of machines.
Jul 2, 2025
She turned one dress rental idea into a billion-dollar company and led the first U.S. IPO with an all-women executive team.
Jun 25, 2025
The first openly gay woman to lead a major U.S. company started from humble beginnings on a farm. Learn her story.
Jun 17, 2025
She grew up with a deep curiosity, a love for reading & writing, and passion for tennis before climbing to the top.
Jun 11, 2025
She played guitar in an all-girl rock band in India. Then she moved to the U.S. with just $500 and rose to run one of the most powerful corporations in the world.
Jun 4, 2025
She moved to the U.S. alone at age 12, taught herself English, and built a $14 billion empire. Meet the woman who rewrote the rules of tech — without making a sound.
May 27, 2025
This single mom arrived in the U.S. with $200. Now she's worth almost a billion dollars. Learn how she did it.
May 21, 2025
8 min read
She was the first in her family to graduate from high school. Today, she is the CEO of a $10 billion company and a leader at one of the most influential artificial intelligence firms in the world.
May 14, 2025
She moved to the U.S. with two suitcases and a prototype. Today, she leads one of the fastest-growing personal care brands in America. Meet the woman behind Touchland.
May 7, 2025
10 min read
She was turned down by over 100 investors, but that didn’t stop Melanie Perkins from building one of the most used startups in the world. Meet the woman behind Canva —and learn how she did it.
