The list of successful women entrepreneurs today includes people from various fields. The following is a list of the ten most successful female business owners of recent decades, all of whom have left an indelible impression on the world. This list does not attempt to be comprehensive and is not arranged in any particular order; rather, its purpose is to honor women who have created a world-famous brand due to their tenacity, perseverance, and hard work.
Zhang Xin
SOHO China is a real estate development company in China that went public in 2007, and Zhang Xin is one of the co-founders of the company. She started her career as a factory worker and went on to get a master's degree in economic development from Cambridge University. This earned her the nickname "the lady who created Beijing." Before starting her own business, Zhang was an employee at Goldman Sachs; since then, she has earned three billion dollars.
Biotechnology
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Biocon is an Indian pharmaceutical firm, and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the company's founder. She started Biocon in a shed that she leased and eventually built it into India's most successful publicly traded biopharma company in terms of sales. After going public in 2004, global firm Biocon was just the second Indian company to exceed $1 billion in market capitalization on its first day of trading. According to Forbes, as of February 2022, Mazumdar-Shaw has a net worth of $4 billion, making her the richest woman in India who achieved her success solely through her efforts.
Management of the Workforce
Janice Bryant Howroyd
ActOne Group was the first firm run by a Black female executive to pull in more than one billion dollars in yearly sales, and Janice Bryant Howroyd was the company's founder. ActOne, which has its headquarters in Los Angeles, is mainly an employment agency and a consultant. Howroyd's business now serves over 17,000 customers in 19 countries, although it had extremely poor beginnings. This is similar to the story of many of her contemporaries, who are also included on this list. In 1978, she started her business with just $1,500 in the bank. She is recognized as one of Forbes' America's Richest Self-Made Entrepreneurs for 2020.
The Entertainment Industry and The Media
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey, already a media magnate, is working diligently to expand her business. The former talk show host and current businesswoman, Winfrey, is a cable television network Oxygen Media co-founder. She kept presenting her talk show until 2011 when she established OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, of which she is the CEO. Since then, she has continued to be in that role. Winfrey became a spokesperson for the widely used membership-based weight management program Weight Watchers International in 2015 after she invested in the company as an ownership share. According to Forbes, Winfrey's net worth is estimated at $2.6 billion.
Beyoncé
After beginning her career in the middle of the 1990s as a member of Destiny's Child, the singer-songwriter has subsequently established herself as a very successful top-selling female solo artist and a worldwide brand. In 2012, Beyoncé and PepsiCo came to an endorsement agreement for a total of fifty million dollars. Beyoncé is involved in the film, music, and fashion industries as a producer, thanks to her firm Parkwood Entertainment. In 2019, she agreed to give material to Netflix under a deal worth $60 million, which was inked with the streaming giant.
The Arianna Huffington
In 2005, Arianna Huffington initiated the publication of the news website known as The Huffington Post. After that, in 2011, she sold the company to AOL, but she maintained her role as CEO and proceeded to expand the Huffington brand internationally. She left her position at The Huffington Post in 2016 to develop Thrive Global, a business focused on health and wellbeing, and she now serves as the company's CEO. According to Time magazine, she is one of the world's 100 most important individuals, which has put her on its list.
The World of Fashion and Beauty
The designer Tory Burch
Tory Burch, who gave her firm its name, started the production of a clothes and fashion line in the United States in 2004. The brand now generates yearly revenue of $1.5 billion in sales. According to Forbes' predictions for the year 2020, she will be one of the most influential women in the world. Burch is also a philanthropist, having established the Tory Burch Foundation to provide financial assistance to female business owners.
Sara Blakely
Blakely, the creator of the Spanx underwear for both women and men, began her business with just $5,000 of her own money, an idea, and unbridled determination. Blakely, much like Tory Burch, runs a charity intending to assist women all around the globe. She collaborated with GlobalGiving to establish the Red Backpack Fund to provide financial assistance to female company owners amid the economic downturn that occurred in the year 2020. The fund distributed over one thousand grants of $5,000 each to deserving female entrepreneurs.
Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields
To develop their flagship product, Proactiv, in 1995. Since then, the manufacturers have applied the dermatological knowledge that enabled them to dominate the market for acne skincare to the need for anti-ageing skincare.
Rihanna
Rihanna, who is only 34 years old, is the youngest woman on this list. She also co-owns Savage X Fenty, a lingerie line, with investors.
Top Women Entrepreneurs
Winfrey is the CEO and co-founder of Oxygen Media, in addition to running the worldwide cable network OWN. Along with Katy Perry and Beyoncé, Ariana Huffington and Rihanna are considered two of the most successful businesswomen in the entertainment and media industries. Women have been the driving force behind many successful businesses and brands. Anne Wojcicki launched the genetic testing firm 23andMe in the year 2006. 23andMe specializes in DNA analysis. Neeti Mehta is credited as one of the co-founders of the San Jose, California-based robotics company Automation Anywhere.
