Top 15 Women Entrepreneurs in World
Wang Laichun
Wang Laichun is a self-made women billionaire. She’s the youngest billionaire women of the world. Despite endless challenges and hardships, she believed in herself and is now the chairperson of Luxshare, a Chinese electronics company that delivers Apple around the region. Her brother is the vice chairman who has helped up thoroughly in this startup. He deserves the success they are enjoying now.
Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is a well-known American technology executive, writer, and an activist, at present the COO of Facebook. She is listed as the board member for The Walt Disney Company, Center for Global Development, Women for Women International, and V-Day.
She holds the pride of being listed in the list of top 100 influential people in the world in 2012 by Times magazine. She is an independent successful woman.
Famous Saying: If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
Liz Wessel
Liz Wessel, a 25-year old girl, founded a startup “Way Up” with J.J Fliegelman (her friend). This startup accelerator was founded in 2014 and it gives a chance to college students, to begin with, an internship, entry-level job and summer/part time job. This idea was initiated by her because she wants to help students in finding the right job, and gain confidence. They managed to raise $7.8 million for the company after completing graduation! Wow, what a smart women she is.
Famous Saying: No one really knows what they’re doing, like no one.
Lisa Falzone
Lisa Falzone is the CEO and co-founder of Revel Systems, POS (an iPad based sale company). The technology used is simple yet catchy. She has managed to raise over $115 million dollars through this startup and is serving as the most famous entrepreneurs of the recent times. Lisa has managed her Silicon Valley startup from the scratch and has been essential in turning the every so often “old school” view of the point of sale on its dome.
Famous Saying: Insert your company values in your hiring practices.
Jessica Mah
Jessica is an American entrepreneur and the CEO of inDinero, a startup company which provides accounting and software services for businesses and has laid the foundation of inDinero stunningly. They cater people with no revenue and help them in establishing in the corporate world. InDinero is the one-stop-shop and backs off solution. Jessica and Co. have managed to raise up to $10 million from the investors.
Famous Saying: Whatever you decide, stick with that definition with absolute and unapologetic confidence
Susan Wojcicki
Susan Wojcicki, an entrepreneur, was born in California and is a Harvard University graduate. To your surprise, Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in her garage back in 1998, and Susan became Google’s first ever marketing executive after a year. After handling Google effectively, she has now become the CEO of YouTube. She is a genius!
Famous Saying: I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
Tiffany Pham
Tiffany is a Yale and Harvard Business School graduate. At the start, she did not know a single word of English language and today is she the CEO of Mogul. Mogul is an award-winning technology platform which enables women to express themselves and access content solely based on their personal choice. She is a leading entrepreneur and is devoted to making the most out technology. Her startup and its success reflect about her hard work.
Famous Saying: Go Against the Grain
(Go against the Grain means to believe in yourself and to hold on to your values, even as popular opinion around you differs.)
Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi, born on 28TH October 1955, and is basically an American business executive. Indra is presently working at PepsiCo as the CEO. She initially joined the company in 1994, became the CFO in 2001, and later the Chief Executive Officer in 2006.
Last year, Indra Nooyi was rated as the 13th most influential woman in the world. Indra’s salary from PepsiCo is nearby $28.6 million and her general net worth is $144 million, which makes her the most famous entrepreneur in the world. She is a dedicated woman.
Famous Saying: Just because you are CEO, don’t think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I’ve never forgotten that.
Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone
Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone are the founders of Alfred startup. Their aim is to help people in the best possible way. And provide them with the necessities they deserve. Alfred is an automatic service and with hands on you can learn time management skills too. Till date, they’ve managed to collect $12.5 million for this startup.
Famous Saying: (by them both): “The entire world reaches out to you when you win”
Denise Coates
Well, you must be well-aware about Bet365 which is an English online betting company. Denise Coates is the founder of it and if you are a football lover, you must know about it. She bought the domain for this site back in 2000 and since then she’s been working on it. Her net worth rate is beyond belief $2.5 billion. What a smart and impactful woman Denise is.
Famous Saying: You start a 24/7 business and you work 24/7. When you’re not here [in the office], you take calls in the middle of the night, regularly — that’s how the early days were. I’ve worked harder than you can possibly imagine. In the last couple of years, life has normalized. The impact on my life now is very different.
Amanda Bradford
Amanda Bradford is the initiator and CEO of The League, a frictionless app with the privacy controls, setting and class that customers want in a dating app. Founded in 2014, Amanda has managed to bring a lot of matches together in this online dating scene and so far it has been a success. Users are attracted towards this app and tend to find their perfect match online. The League raised up $2.1 million in 2015.
Catherine Gluckstein
Catherine is the President of SumAll.com a venture-backed startup and has the mission of allowing people to access big data. She has served has a Vice President, Corporate Development at iStockphoto and Getty images. Catherine started her profession as a program journalist for the BBC and Reuters Television. She has completed her Masters from London Business School and Columbia Business School. She believes that her children are her strength and she wishes to make the world a better place to live in!
Famous Saying: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
Oprah Winfrey
Everyone loves Oprah, no?
Oprah Winfrey is a multi-talented, effective talk show host, producer, and philanthropist. Her most popular venture has been ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show‘, which lasted for about 25 seasons. Her net worth is around $3 billion and is ranked as the world’s top entrepreneur. You would certainly want to learn a lot from her and idealize her. She carries a courageous and attractive personality.
Famous Saying: My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment
Gina Rinehart
Gina Rinehart is the Australian billionaire and is the 6th richest woman in the world, with a particular wealth of $11.7 billion. She is the CEO of Hancock Prospecting Group, a mining company which, to put things into perception, yields 30 million tons of iron ore per year. She has been beholding after the company since her father’s death.
Famous Saying: We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything the first two have built up and I certainly hope my family are different, because I’ve worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.
Beyonce
Beyonce Knowles, Co-founder House of Dereon. Beyonce shaped the fashion label House of Dereon in 2004 with her mother, Tina Knowles. In May 2012, Beyonce added one more credit to her entrepreneurial record when she launched shop.beyonce.com, a branded attire, and accessory market. Beyonce has an assessed net worth of $450 million as she’s also one of the most famous singers and her husband, Jay Z’s net worth is about $650 million.
Famous Saying: If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.