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55 Most Influential Women Entrepreneurs

Even though men have outnumbered women when it comes to business ownership, according to various sources women’s entrepreneurship has been growing around the world. However, women entrepreneurs in developing economies face several challenges, including a lack of access to finance and legal inequalities, such as restrictions on owning or managing property. Therefore women entrepreneurs in already developed countries have played a big impact in other developing countries.

These women have become influential in encouraging other women not to give up when it comes to entrepreneurship as it gives them financial freedom and satisfies their lives in one or the other. Therefore, there are about 55 Most Influential Women Entrepreneurs who you should consider knowing. They include the following;

1. Diane Hendrick

Diane Marie Hendricks is an American billionaire businesswoman and film producer. Her husband was Ken Hendrick. Before she married Ken Diane was selling custom-built homes while Ken was a roofing contractor. After the two got married, Ken and Diane became partners in marriage and business. In 1982 they secured a loan with the help of their credit line thus allowing them to build the ABC supply. It is the nation鈥檚 largest wholesale distributor of residential and commercial roofing, windows, gutters, and siding.

Hendricks is not only the owner and founder of ABC Supply but also the Hendricks Holding Company.  Forbes estimated her net worth to be $2.8 billion in March 2012 and $11.1 billion by August 2021. Additionally, Forbes named Hendricks the richest self-made woman in the United States in 2018.

2. Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her Chicago-based talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, which aired in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. She was considered the wealthiest African American of the twentieth century. In 2007, she was regarded as the most powerful woman on the planet.

Even though she was born and raised in a poor urban neighborhood by a mother who only relied on government welfare payments, Oprah became a millionaire at the age of 32 when her talk show was picked up for national syndication.  

3. J.K Rowling

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Joanne Rowling is a British author, philanthropist, producer, and screenwriter better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling. From 1997 to 2007, she wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children’s fantasy series. The series has sold over 500 million copies worldwide, translated into at least 70 languages, and inspired a global media franchise that includes films and video games. Her first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy (2012), was published in 2012. Under the pen name Robert Galbraith, she writes the ongoing crime fiction series Cormoran Strike.

Rowling is best known as a fantasy and children’s literature author.  Her work in other genres, such as literary fiction and murder mysteries, has received less critical acclaim.  Harry Potter is one of Rowling’s most famous works. It has been described as a fairy tale, a Bildungsroman, and a boarding-school story.

4. Meg Whitman

Margaret Cushing Whitman who is the United States ambassador to Kenya is an American business executive and a former California gubernatorial candidate. She serves on the boards of Procter & Gamble and General Motors. Whitman previously served as the president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. She also served as the CEO of Quibi from its inception in August 2018 to its closure in December 2020.

Whitman worked on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012, and she ran for governor of California as a Republican in 2010, but she supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election and Joe Biden in the 2020 general election. Whitman began her career as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1979. Later on, worked as a consultant for Bain & Company. She worked her way up the ranks to become senior vice president.  Whitman and her husband Harsh established a charitable foundation on December 21, 2006, by donating 300,000 shares of eBay stock worth $9.4 million to it.

5. Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Kara Sandberg is a business executive, billionaire, and philanthropist from the United States. Sandberg served as Meta Platforms’ chief operating officer (COO). However, on August 2022 Sheryl officially resigned from the position. She is also the founder of LeanIn.Org.Sandberg.

She was named to the Time 100, an annual list of the world’s most influential people, in 2012. Sandberg is reported to have a net worth of US$1.7 billion, according to Forbes Magazine’s 2021 billionaires list, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and other companies.

6. Doris Fisher

Doris Lee Feigenbaum Fisher is an American businesswoman who co-founded The Gap clothing store in 1969 with her late husband. The existence of the GAP, indeed, has made it easier to find a pair of jeans. Fisher is an art enthusiast. She gave the collection that she and her husband spent their lives amassing. It consists of 1,100 works by 185 artists including Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, and Richard Serra, to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Forbes Magazine named her one of the 100 Most Powerful Women. In addition, it was revealed that Doris, along with her sons donated nearly $9 million to Americans for Job Security. It is a non-profit group that campaigned against Barack Obama in the 2012 election.

7. Zhou Qunfei

Zhou Qunfei is a Chinese businessman who founded the major touchscreen manufacturer Lens Technology. Her net worth reached US$10 billion following the public listing of her company on the Shenzhen ChiNext market in March 2015, making her the richest woman in China.  With a net worth of $10 billion, she was named the world’s richest self-made woman in 2018.

 In 1993, at the age of 22, she started her business after the factory closed. Customers were enticed by the company’s promise of higher-quality watch lenses. Her big break came in 2001 when her company won a lucrative contract to manufacture mobile phone screens for the Chinese electronics behemoth TCL Corporation.  Zhou stated that she has founded 11 businesses over the years.

8.Kiran Mazumdar- Shaw

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian entrepreneur and billionaire. She is the founder and executive chairperson of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited, both of which are based in Bangalore, India. In addition, she is the former chairman of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She received the Othmer Gold Medal in 2014 for her outstanding contributions to the advancement of science and chemistry. Kiran was named one of the top 50 women in business by the Financial Times in 2011.  In 2019, Forbes ranked her as the 68th most powerful woman in the world.  In 2020, she was named EY World Entrepreneur of The Year.  She is the wife of John Shaw.

9. Zhang Xin

Zhang Xin is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman who made her fortune primarily in real estate. She co-founded and was the former CEO of SOHO China, a Chinese office building developer, with her husband Pan Shiyi.  Even though she was raised in poverty in Beijing and Hong Kong, whereby she worked as a factory worker, Xin, later on, came to rise through the ranks of becoming the owner of companies that are responsible for dozens of real estate developments in Beijing and Shanghai. Zhang began transitioning from a business model of building and selling properties to one of buying and leasing them in the mid-2010s. Zhang was named the 62nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2014 and is “regularly named one of the world’s most powerful women.”

10. Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi is an Indian-American business executive and former PepsiCo CEO and Chairman. She has consistently been named one of the world’s top 100 most powerful women. She was ranked 13th on Forbes’ list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2014. and was named Fortune’s second most powerful woman in 2015 and 2017. She also serves on the boards of the International Cricket Council and Amazon.

11. Beyonce

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Beyonc茅 Knowles-Carter is a singer from the United States. She used her fame to become a global brand. Even those who are unfamiliar with Beyonc茅 as a performer may recognize her name from fashion labels, cosmetic lines, and Pepsi commercials. Her net worth was estimated to be $450 million in December 2002. Moreover, according to Forbes, she was ranked 61 as one of America鈥檚 wealthiest self-made women.

Her businesses include records, a streaming music service, modeling and speaking for Pepsi and L’Oreal, fashion labels, and film production. Parkwood Entertainment is the name of Beyonc茅’s company. She also earns money from public appearances, modeling assignments for fashion magazines, and concert tours. Beyonc茅 also creates movies, music, and clothing through her company, Parkwood Entertainment. Parkwood Entertainment’s media projects include the films “Cadillac Records” and “Obsessed.”

12. Sara Blakely

Sara Treleaven Blakely is a businesswoman and philanthropist from the United States. She is the founder of Spanx, an American intimate apparel company based in Atlanta, Georgia that specializes in pants and leggings.  Blakely was named to Time magazine’s annual “Time 100” list of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2012. Forbes ranked her as the 93rd most powerful woman in the world in 2014.

Blakely established the Sara Blakely Foundation in 2006 to assist women through education and entrepreneurial training.  The foundation has funded scholarships for young women at South Africa鈥檚 community and Individual Development Association city campus

13. Wang Laicnun

Wang Laichun is a Chinese billionaire, chairwoman, and co-founder of the electronics manufacturer Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd.  It was founded in 2004 in Dongguan, China. The company designs and manufactures computer cables and also an Apple AirPods key assembler.  In 2010, the company was publicly listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s SME board.

Even though it was reported that not only was she one of the world鈥檚 youngest self-made female billionaires at the age of 46 but was the second-richest woman in China in 2021. Before she established the Luxshare precision industry with her brother she worked for Foxconn for about ten years.

14. Cher Wang

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Cher Wang is a Taiwanese businessman, who is one of the most successful women in computer technology. She is the co-founder and chairperson of HTC Corporation and integrated chipset maker VIA Technologies. In 1982, Wang joined First International Computer (FIC). In addition, she and her colleagues established VIA in 1987 and HTC in 1997. Both companies’ core products are smartphones. She was also ranked No. 56 on Forbes’ list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in August 2012. [Forbes ranked her as the 54th most powerful woman in the world in 2014.

Her Charity Foundations own stocks in eight investment companies worth more than $200 million. According to a news article, only $27,000 (0.000135%) was donated to charity. Through her foundations, she has made significant donations to various learning institutions.

15. Denise Coates

Denise Coates CBE is a British businesswoman who is the founder, majority shareholder, and joint CEO of the online gambling company Bet365.  Coates owns approximately half of Bet365. As of December 2022, her fortune is estimated to be $5.2 billion. She is one of the wealthiest women in Britain, according to the Sunday Times Rich list, and has been the highest-paid chief executive in Britain for several years as of 2021.

In August 2012, Coates established the Bet365 Foundation which was renamed in February 2016. It is a registered charity under English law and as of 2014, it had donated 拢100 million to twenty UK charities. It also donated 拢10 million to University Hospitals of North Midlands in April 2020 to support staff fighting the coronavirus. In 2022, the charity donated 拢1 million to help Ukrainian families.

16.Folorunsho ALakija

Folorunsho Alakija is a Nigerian philanthropist and billionaire businesswoman.  She works in the fashion, oil, real estate, and printing industries. She is the Group Managing Director of The Rose of Sharon Group, which includes The Rose of Sharon Prints & Promotions Limited, Digital Reality Prints Limited, and Famfa Oil Limited.

Alakija also owns a controlling interest in Day Spring Property Development Company.  Forbes ranks Folorunsho Alakija as Nigeria’s richest woman, with a net worth of $1 billion as of 2020. According to Forbes, Alakija is the second most powerful woman in Africa after Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the 87th most powerful woman in the world.

17. Gina Rinehart

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Georgina Hope Rinehart is a business tycoon, entrepreneur, and heiress from Australia. Rinehart is the Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, which was founded by her father, Lang Hancock, and is a privately held mineral exploration and extraction company. When she acquired Hancock Prospecting, its total wealth was estimated to be A$75 million, excluding group liabilities and contingent liabilities. She oversaw the company’s expansion over the next decade, and due to the iron ore boom of the early 2000s, she became a nominal billionaire in 2006. 

She is considered the wealthiest individual in Australia since her wealth spiked to around A$29 billion in 2012. Unfortunately, her wealth steadily declined over the next few years because the Australian mining sector was stalled. However, her wealth was rebuilt during 2020 due to increased demand for Australian iron ore, so by May 2021, her net worth was estimated to be more than A$30 billion as published in the 2021 Financial Review Rich List.

18. Sophia Amoruso

Sophia Christina Amoruso is a businesswoman from the United States. She founded Nasty Gal which was is women’s fashion retailer that was named one of Inc. Magazine’s “fastest growing companies” in 2012. Forbes named her one of the world’s richest self-made women in 2016.  Nasty Gal, on the other hand, was declared bankrupt. Later on, Amoruso founded Girlboss Media in 2017, a company that creates content for women in the millennial generation to advance as individuals in their personal and professional lives.

19. Huda Kattan

Huda Kattan is an American model and actress. She is also a makeup artist, beauty blogger, and entrepreneur. Kattan launched a cosmetics line called “Huda Beauty” in 2013, the same name as her blog.  Her first product, a line of false eyelashes, was distributed by Sephora. The Huda Beauty label found success with the sale of false eyelashes, which Kim Kardashian famously wore.  Huda’s Dubai-based company later expanded its offerings to include eye shadow palettes, liquid lipsticks, lip liners, highlighter palettes, foundations, concealers, baking powders, and liquid eyeshadows. With the help of her cosmetic brand, Kattan has participated in various philanthropic activities.

20. Tory Burch

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Tory Burch is a fashion designer, businesswoman, and philanthropist from the United States.  She is the executive chairperson of and chief creative officer of her own company Tory Burch LLC. Forbes ranked her as the 88th most powerful woman in the world in 2020. Burch founded her fashion label in February 2004, with a retail store in Manhattan’s Nolita district. However, as of 2020, it expanded to over 300 stores worldwide. The fashion line is also sold in over 3,000 department and specialty stores worldwide.

Moreover, in 2009 she established the Tory Burch Foundation whose main goal is to support the economic empowerment of women in the United State, through small business loans, mentoring and entrepreneurial education.

21. Arianna Huffington

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She co-founded The Huffington Post and is also the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and has written fifteen books. She has been named to Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people as well as Forbes’ list of the World’s Most Powerful Women.

 As a matter of fact, her most recent books, Thrive The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, and The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time, both went on to become instant international best-sellers.

22. Vera Wang

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Vera Wang is a bridal wear designer of wedding gowns. Wang rose to prominence as the designer of elegant wedding gowns. She has designed wedding gowns for various celebrities also Michelle Obama has worn Wang’s evening wear.

Before becoming a fashion designer for wedding gowns, she was first hired as an editor at Vogue immediately after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College. Thus, making her the magazine’s youngest editor. She worked at Vogue for 17 years before leaving in 1987 to work for Ralph Lauren for two years. She resigned at the age of 40 and became an independent bridal wear designer. Not only Forbes ranked her 34th on the list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women in 2018, with revenues reaching $630 million that year but also in 2013, she received the Council of Fashion Designers of America Lifetime Achievement Award.

23. Catherine Isabel

Catherine Isabel who is also known as “Cath” Kidston鈥欌�檌s a British fashion designer, entrepreneur, and author. Cath Kidston Limited is her company. The company sells home furnishings as well as other items. They sell in stores, online, and by mail.  In February 2010, the company was valued at 拢75,000,000. Kidston is well-known for her floral patterns.

She started her first store after overcoming breast cancer in Holland Park in London. She had breast cancer when she was 37 years. It was first opened in 1993. The shop sold hand-embroidered tea towels as well as brightly refurbished furniture. [It was later described as a “glorified junk shop” by Kidston. As of April 2011, she had 41 stores and concessions in the UK. Two more are in Ireland, eleven are in Japan, and three are in Korea. More shops are due to open in Japan and Korea.  She is also the author of several books.

24. Angie Hicks

Angie Hicks is the iconic co-founder of Angie’s List and the Chief Customer Officer of ANGI Homeservices Inc. Hicks also serves on the Board of Directors of Techpoint and is a co-founder and former member of the Board of Directors of The Governor Bob Orr Indiana Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program. She served on the Board of Directors of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce until 2016.

25. Rihanna

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Rihanna is popularly known for being a singer, and actress, but she is also a businesswoman. She is the second-best-selling female music artist of all time, with sales of over 250 million records worldwide. In addition to music, she is well-known for her involvement in humanitarian causes, business ventures, and the fashion industry. Some of the ventures she has founded include the nonprofit Clara Lionel Foundation, the cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, and the fashion house Fenty under LVMH; whereby she is considered to be the first black woman to lead a luxury brand.

26. Eileen Fisher

Eileen Fisher is a fashion designer and entrepreneur from the United States. She founded the women’s clothing company Eileen Fisher Inc. Before she started her fashion line, she worked as an interior designer and graphic artist. Her fashion line was indeed inspired by the timeless style of a kimono.

Growing up in a poverty family, Fisher worked herself hard as she never expected any penny from her parent. In an interview, she revealed that she paid her way to the university by working as a waitress.

27. Kim Kardashian

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Kim Kardashian is not only an American socialite, and media personality, but also a  businesswoman. She co-founded the fashion boutique chain Dash with her sisters Kourtney and Khlo茅, which operated from 2006 to 2018. In 2017, Kardashian launched KKW Beauty and KKW Fragrance, and in 2019, she launched Skims, a shaping underwear or foundation garment company. 

Kardashian has amassed a sizable online and social media following, with hundreds of millions of followers on Twitter and Instagram alone. However, Kardashian was named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2015. Both critics and fans have described her as exemplifying the concept of being famous for the sake of being famous.  As of 2022, her net worth is estimated to be $1.8 billion.

28. Tracy Chadwell

Chadwell after growing her career in the law and the banking industry, she felt that she was prepared to take on the challenge. Thus she established 1843 Capital in 2016, whereby she serves as the founding partner. In addition, she also serves as a board observer at Finn Al and a board member at Recaro health. Therefore, Tracy brings to the Woman-Owned Greenwich Steering Committee a deep Greenwich network as well as a wealth of early-stage funding knowledge and connections.

29. Alexandra Cooper

Alexandra Cooper rose to prominence as the co-host of the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” which she co-hosted with her friend Sofia Franklyn. The podcast debuted on Barstool Sports in 2018 and quickly became a hit. Cooper is undeniably a force in the entertainment industry, with over two million Instagram followers, 300,000 YouTube subscribers, and 1.4 million TikTok followers. 

Cooper began working as an on-air studio anchor for Dirty Water Media shortly after graduating in 2016, spreading the word about her talent. Two years later, she launched “Call Her Daddy,” a comedy and advice podcast. It discussed sex, sexual relationships, and New York City culture. Within a year, the podcast had amassed thousands of devoted followers. Cooper signed a $60 million exclusive deal with Spotify in 2021. The agreement stated that the podcast would only be available on the streaming device.

30. Judith Faulkner

Judith is an American billionaire and the CEO and founder of Epic System, which is a healthcare software company. She founded the company in 1979, whereby was initially called  Human Service Computing. In addition,  Judith not only made the list of the Forbes of the most powerful woman in Healthcare in 2013, the 2020 list of the world’s billionaires. She was ranked 836th with a net worth of US$5.5 billion.  In 2018, she was Forbes America’s Top 50 Women In Tech

31. Mackenzie Scott

MacKenzie Scott is a novelist and philanthropist from the United States. She has a net worth of US$27 billion as of December 2022, which may be impacted by the  4% stake in Amazon, the company founded by her ex-husband Jeff Bezos. Scott is thus the third-wealthiest woman in the United States and the 35th-wealthiest person in the world.  Forbes named Scott one of the world’s most powerful women in 2021, and Time named her one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020. 

She has been the executive director of the anti-bullying organization Bystander Revolution since its inception in 2014.  Scott made various charitable contributions since 2020.  However, had donated a total of $14 billion to over 1600 charitable organizations as of mid-December 2022.  This might be influenced by the fact that as a signatory to the Giving Pledge, she has pledged to donate at least half of her wealth to charity.

32. Shonda Rhimes

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Shonda Lynn Rhimes is a television screenwriter, producer, and author from the United States. She is best known as the creator, head writer, and executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy, its spin-off Private Practice, and the political thriller series Scandal. Rhimes was also an executive producer on the ABC television shows Off the Map, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, and Grey’s Anatomy spin-off Station 19. 

Rhimes was named to Time’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007, 2013, and 2021. However, Rhimes’ production company is called Shondaland.  Shondaland and its logo also refer to Rhimes’ shows and Rhimes herself. 

33. Carolyn Aronson

Carolyn Aronson is an American author and an American Latina businesswoman who founded It’s a 10 Haircare.  She decided to become a hairdresser when she was 18 years and later in 1998 she started Allianza salon in Michigan. In addition, in 2002, Aronson and Scott Scharg co-founded the styling product line LINQ. For its product line, the company used multiple vendors and had significant quality control issues but it was eventually demolished in 2005. 

34. Susan Wojcicki

Susan Diane is a Polish-American business executive who has served as YouTube’s CEO since 2014. In 2022, her net worth was estimated to be $765 million.  She has been in the technology industry for over 20 years. Susan became the first marketing manager of Google in 1999. In addition, the Freedom Forum Institute dedicated to advancing First Amendment freedoms that were presented by Wojcicki with the “Free Expression Award” on April 15, 2021. Her platform was criticized for sponsoring the award ceremony.  In 

Wojcicki was appointed CEO of YouTube in February 2014.  and was not only named “the most important person in advertising”, but also one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2015 and described as “the most powerful woman on the Internet” in a later issue of Time. 

35. Debbi fields

Debbi Fields serves as the founder and spokesperson of the Mrs. Fields Bakeries’  She has written several cookbooks and enjoys baking cookies. She moved to Nashville in 2014 after living in Memphis for over 16 years since remarrying in 1997. Michael David Rose, her late husband, was the former CEO/Chairman of Holiday Corp. and Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. On April 2, 2017, he died of cancer at the age of 75.  However, the bakery operates in about 250 locations.

36. Melanie Perkins

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Melanie Perkins is an Australian billionaire technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Canva. Perkins is the youngest female CEO of a tech start-up worth more than A$1 billion. In May 2021 she was named one of the wealthiest women in Australia.  According to Forbes, Perkins’ estimated net worth as of January 31, 2022, is A$9.21 billion (US$6.5 billion). After learning that most of the prominent venture capitalists use kite surfing as a way to network with the founders, she became interested. Most of the time, she would go kitesurfing with venture capitalist Bill Tai regularly.

37. Audrey Gelman,  

Audrey Gelman is a businesswoman and political staffer from the United States. She is the founder of The Wing, a women’s co-working space and social club in New York City that she founded in 2016. Allison Williams’ character Marnie on Girls was inspired by her. 

Gelman was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30: Corporate Climbers in the December 2014 issue, and she had previously been named to the magazine’s 30 Under 30: Law and Policy list. She was also named to Fast Company’s list of the Most Creative People in Business in 2017. In December 2017, she was featured in a TechCrunch feature on 42 women who are succeeding in technology.

39. Reshma Shetty

Reshma Shetty and four others, including her husband Barry Canton, founded Gingko Bioworks, a synthetic biotechnology company, in 2009. Shetty earned her Ph.D. in biological engineering at MIT, where she met the other cofounders of Ginkgo Bioworks. The company was named after a dinosaur-era tree. It uses data analytics and robotics to accelerate the discovery and creation of new organisms.
Ginkgo Bioworks went public in September 2021 through a SPAC merger; shares fell 80% from their peak in November to mid-May 2022.

40. Cathy Hughes

Cathy Hughes is a prominent black entrepreneur, radio executive, and founder of Radio One, Inc. She is one of the most successful African American media moguls and has paved the way for other black entrepreneurs in the media industry.

Hughes created Radio One, which has become the largest radio company targeting African American audiences in the United States and has expanded into television and digital media. She has been credited with revolutionizing the radio industry and has won numerous awards for her achievements. In addition to her business success, she is also a philanthropist and has worked to empower and uplift her community.

41. Janice Bryant Howroyd

Janice Bryant Howroyd is an African-American entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is the founder and CEO of Act鈥�1 Group, the first woman-owned and African-American-owned billion-dollar company in the United States.  The first African-American woman to own a billion-dollar business. She is a member of the National Women鈥檚 Business Council, the National Advisory Board of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the Minority Business Development Agency.

Howroyd has received numerous awards and accolades for her work, including being named one of the 鈥淢ost Powerful Women in Business鈥� by Fortune magazine, one of the 鈥淭op 25 Women of Influence鈥� by Black Enterprise magazine, and one of the 鈥淢ost Influential Business Leaders鈥� by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

42. Madam C.J. Walker

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Madam C.J. Walker was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political activist who rose from poverty to become the first female self-made millionaire in the United States. She was the founder of the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, which sold beauty and hair products specifically for African American women. In addition to her business success, Walker was an active civil rights advocate and donated money to charities and civil rights organizations.  Walker’s success as an entrepreneur and civil rights activist served as a source of inspiration for many and she remains a role model for many African American women today.

43. Shunne Yee

Shunee Yee is not only the President and CEO of CSOFT International and CSOFT Health Sciences but is also in charge of CSOFT’s operations across three continents and is responsible for its organic growth from a two-bedroom apartment start-up to an industry leader.

Ms. Yee serves on the Academic Board of Dexter Southfield School, and she is a member of the A Taste of Ginger Committee, an event hosted by the world-renowned Joslin Center to raise awareness and funds for the Asian American Diabetes Initiative.

44. Victoria Ransom

Victoria Ransom is a New Zealand serial entrepreneur. She founded three businesses, including Wildfire Interactive, a social marketing SaaS company where Ransom served as CEO until it was acquired by Google in 2012.

Ransom was named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2012, as well as one of their 40 Under 40. The World Economic Forum also named her a Young Global Leader in 2015.

45. Emma Grede

Emma Grede is a British entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of Good American, is a founding partner of Skims, and co-founded Safely.  Grede founded and was CEO of Independent Talent Brand (ITB) Worldwide, which is a London-based talent management and entertainment marketing agency, in 2008 after working as a producer at a fashion show and events company Inca Productions. Later on, she left ITB after it was acquired by Rogers & Cowan in 2018.

In addition, Grede appears as a guest shark on the first episode of Shark Tank’s 13th season in 2021. To be promoted as not only the show’s first black woman but also the show’s first bi-racial woman: her mother is white and her father is black.

46. Kris Jenner

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Kristen Mary Jenner is a media personality, socialite, and businesswoman from the United States. She rose to prominence as a regular on the reality television show Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007鈥�2021). Jenner not only runs Jenner Communications, which is based in Los Angeles, but also has managed the careers of her daughters Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Kendall, and Kylie since before the premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. She also manages the businesses of her other two daughters and son.

47. Kathy Ireland

Kathleen Marie Ireland is an author, entrepreneur, fashion designer, philanthropist, and former fashion model from the United States. Ireland rose to prominence as a supermodel in the 1980s and 1990s, appearing in 13 consecutive Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, including three covers. In 1993, she founded kathy ireland Worldwide (kiWW). A brand licensing company that has made her one of the world’s wealthiest former models. By 2015, she had amassed a personal fortune of $420 million as a result of her business career.  Her company generated $3.1 billion in retail sales in 2021 alone. The brand was ranked 15th in the world, and Ireland was inducted into the Licensing Hall of Fame. 

48. Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen

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Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen also known as the Olsen twins are former actresses and fashion designers. As infants, the twins made their acting debut as Michelle Tanner on the television series Full House. Mary-Kate and Ashley began starring together in other TV shows, films, and video projects when they were six years old, and this continued into their adolescence. The Olsens rose quickly through their company Dualstar to become among the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry.

49. Jessica Alba

Jessica Marie Alba is an American businesswoman and actress. She first appeared on television and in films at the age of 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994) and rose to prominence at the age of 19 as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000-2002), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.  Alba co-founded The Honest Company, a consumer goods company that sells baby, personal, and household items, in 2011. Magazines such as Men’s Health, Vanity Fair, and FHM have all named her one of the world’s most beautiful women.

50. Jessica Simpson

Jessica Ann Simpson Johnson is an American singer, actress, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Simpson signed with Columbia Records in 1997, aged seventeen, after performing in church choirs as a child. Sweet Kisses (1999), her debut studio album, sold two million copies in the United States, and the single “I Wanna Love You Forever” was a commercial success.

Aside from her musical endeavors, Simpson launched The Jessica Simpson Collection, a fashion-focused line with 34 product categories, in 2005. The brand has earned more than $1 billion in revenue to date, making it the most successful celebrity licensing brand in history. She also appeared on the reality show The Price of Beauty in 2010 and judged clothing designs on two seasons of Fashion Star between 2012 and 2013.

51.Gwen Stefani

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Gwen Stefani is a singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and actress from the United States. She is a co-founder, lead vocalist, and primary songwriter for the band No Doubt, whose singles include “Just a Girl,” “Spiderwebs,” and “Don’t Speak” from their debut studio album Tragic Kingdom in 1995, as well as “Hey Baby” and “It’s My Life” from subsequent albums.

Stefani designed the majority of the outfits she wore on stage with No Doubt, resulting in increasingly eclectic ensembles. Stefani was introduced to haute couture clothing by stylist Andrea Lieberman, which led to the launch of her L.A.M.B. fashion line in 2004.  The collection draws inspiration from a wide range of fashions, including Guatemalan, Japanese, and Jamaican styles. [The line became popular among celebrities, with Teri Hatcher, Nicole Kidman, and Stefani herself wearing it. 

52. Victoria Beckham

Victoria Caroline Beckham OBE  is a fashion designer, singer, and television personality from England. She rose to prominence in the 1990s as a member of the Spice Girls, where she was known as Posh Spice. The group became the best-selling female group of all time after selling over 100 million records worldwide. Beckham was signed to Virgin Records after the Spice Girls split in 2001, and she released her self-titled debut solo album, which produced two UK Top 10 singles.

Beckham has established herself as an international style icon and fashion designer. After high-profile collaborations with other brands, she launched her label in 2008, followed by a lower-priced (diffusion) label in 2011. In 2011, the Victoria Beckham label was named designer brand of the year in the United Kingdom, and in 2012, it was named the star performer in the Beckham family’s business interests. In the 2017 New Year Honours, she was awarded an OBE for services to the fashion industry.

53. Rosalind Brewer

Brewer not only became the only Black woman at the helm of an S&P company but also became the only Black woman to sit on Amazon’s board in 2019. She was appointed in 2021 by Walgreens Boots to be its CEO.

However, Brewer helped bring  Sam’s club into the modern day with services such as the advanced online ordering of groceries when she was the CEO. In addition, Forbes listed her as one of the 13 power women in 2022.

54. Trisha Prabhu

Trisha is an activist and female entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of Rethink. Due to witnessing how cyberbullying and online harassment has negatively impacted teen, Trisha created an app called Rethink. The app tends to add   a keyboard to the smartphone and thus can detect and prevent hateful messages.

In addition, she has not only been featured in Forbes鈥� 鈥�30 Under 30鈥� list in the category of Social Impact but has also been featured on TED India and Shark Tank.

55. Jen Ensquer-Fraboni

Jen Esquer-Fraboni is popularly known as DocJen Fit. She founded her website, app, two fitness program, and the podcast while she was at university. Through her online content, she helps people all around the world to increase their mobility and get a better hold of their bodies. Jen has successfully grown her social media following to over 675k followers and has a thriving online business that she enjoys. She started her business by taking just a leap of faith which most of us do not dare to do. She has been listed as part of Time Magazine鈥檚 鈥�100 Most Influential People鈥� list and also Part of Forbes鈥� 鈥�50 Over 50鈥� list (2021).