Women in Entrepreneurship
Who was the first self-made millionaire in the US from her line of hair care products for Black women and who had a Netflix series based on her life?
Who was Madam C.J. Walker?
Whose first business venture, the Detroit Automobile Company, failed then went bankrupt but turned around to start a now $40 billion company?
Who was Henry Ford?
The co founder and former CEO of microsoft
Who is Bill Gates?
This term refers to a startup worth over $1 billion
What is a unicorn?
This person co-founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard.
Who is Mark Zuckerberg
Who is one of the most successful and well known woman entrepreneurs who has started up or owned over 9 businesses and has a net worth of $3.2 Billion?
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Who came back from financial crisis, after being convicted of insider trading, by using their personal brand and is now one of the most well known names in cooking and home goods?
Who is Martha Stewart?
He started amazon as an online bookstore
Who is Jeff Bezos?
The percentage of ownership given to investors in exchange for capital
What is equity?
This online marketplace that was founded in 1995 and it started off by selling books.
What is Amazon
What company, owned by Whitney Wolfe Herd, is a female-led dating app and what place does it rank among dating apps in the US?
What is Bumble which comes in close second place (after Tinder which was also co-founded by Herd)?
What company’s idea was turned down by 217 of 242 investors and is now a global empire with over 30,000 locations worldwide and who created it?
What is Starbucks and who is Howard Schultz?
The CEO of openAI and a major voice in AI development
Who is Sam Altman?
This type of funding comes from family, friends, or personal savings to get a startup off the ground
What is seed funding?
This video streaming service which is now a household name started off as a DVD rental-by-mail business.
What is Netflix
Who was the first true woman entrepreneur who lived from 1722-1793 and created a new strain of indigo which became her colony’s second largest cash crop?
Who was Eliza Lucas Pinckney?
What was Walt Disney’s first animation studio that went bankrupt in 1923?
What is Laugh-O-Gram Studios?
He is the co founder of Netflix and helped transform it from DVD rentals into a global streaming giant
Who is Reed Hastings?
A startup valued at $10 billion or more earns this title
What is a decacorn?
Two Stanford PhD students co-founded this company after building a search algorithm called “Backrub.”
What is google
What product did Sara Blakely sell in order to save $5,000 to start up her $1.2 Billion dollar company: Spanx?
What are fax machines?
What publisher finally picked up J.K. Rowling who wrote the Harry Potter books as a single mother living off of welfare benefits that eventually became one of the most successful series in children’s literature history?
What is Bloomsbury?
He grew Starbucks into an international coffee empire
Who is Howard Schultz?
A phrase for starting a company with very little money, relying on creativity and resourcefulness
What is bootstrapping?
This group of people including Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk, and many others started and were original employees of paypal and eventually sold later to eBay.
What is paypal mafia