
Founder Stories


Pecans and Politics: Inside the Mind of a 12-Year-Old Founder

Social Studies and Stationery: Inside the Mind of a 10-Year-Old Founder

Beagles and Basketball: Inside the Mind of a 12-Year-Old Founder

Vanguard: How A Tribe Called Red Brought Activism to the Dance Floor

Overdraft: The Dark Side of Overnight Success

Overdraft: How Native Poppy Bloomed—Even Through Its Founder’s Darkest Days

Sharks and Shooting Hoops: Inside the Minds of Two School-Aged Founders

Vanguard: This Latinx Bath Brand Is Bubbling with Nostalgia

How to Be a Boss: 18 Tips from This Is Us’ Randall and Beth Pearson

Bath Bombs and Batman: Inside the Mind of a 6-Year-Old Founder

Vanguard: The Unique Voice Behind Gender-fluid Wellness Products

How to Be a Boss: 10 Tips from Shrill

STEM and Stargate Atlantis: Inside the Mind of a 11-Year-Old Founder

Vanguard: Meet the Nigerian Publisher Heating Up African Romance Novels

How to Be a Boss: 12 Tips from The Crown

Overdraft: Success for This Founder—at First—Simply Meant Surviving

Baseball and Black Panther: Inside the Mind of an 11-Year-Old Founder

Vanguard: This Artist Conjured a Magical World of Black Anime Characters

How to Be a Boss: 16 Tips from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Overdraft: Will His Family’s Food Business Turn into a Recipe for Success?

Sloths and Shiny Things: Inside the Mind of a 10-Year-Old Founder

Introducing Homework—A Series Taking You Inside the Minds of Kid Founders

Vanguard: How Northbound Leather Became a Thriving Fetish Wear Company

How to Be a Boss: 12 Tips from GLOW

How Tibetan Monks and Cross-Country Moves Inspired This Artist’s Journey

Vanguard: He Ditched a Government Job to Start a Skin-Care Line for Men of Color

How to Be a Boss: 19 Career Tips from Schitt’s Creek

Overdraft: She Spent Retirement Savings to Launch These Building Toys—Without Regret

How to Be an Expectant Mom with a Day Job

How an Ex-Financier Built a Beauty Behemoth from her Kitchen

Vanguard: The Lengths This Indigenous Jeweler Went to for Her Craft

How to Be a Boss: 16 Tips from Orange Is the New Black

Overdraft: When This Self-Made Beauty Boss Risked Everything

Behind the Curtain: How This Magician Turned an Art Form Into a Business

Vanguard: She Traded a Career in Law for High-Fashion Hijabs

How to Be a Boss: 19 Tips from Big Little Lies

These Brothers Run a Business—Between Football Practice and Playing with Lego

Vanguard: Prejudice Against Her Blackness Inspired a Million-Dollar Beauty Business

How to Be a Boss: 12 Tips from Queer Eye

Overdraft: Starting Over—and Making Caramels—from Scratch

“Just One Dress” Brought These Perfect Strangers Together

Overdraft: This Dessert Founder Doesn’t Sugar-Coat Her Start-up Story

Overdraft: How One Founder Is Changing Lives—Including Her Own—Through a $500 Start-up

These Designers Are Showcasing Underrepresented Communities to Change Fashion

Overdraft: When Divorce Forced This Founder to Redefine the Meaning of Success

Fulfilling Her Cottage Dream Started by Flipping Her Life Upside Down

Stacy London on Unethical Fashion and What Not to Wear

“I Call Myself KidSuper. I Had to Be Amazing”
