Idea Makers 15 Fearless Female Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship can change your life—and even the world
 
Idea Makers shares the incredible stories of 15 women who changed the world through their entrepreneurship. Author Lowey Bundy Sichol presents five industries that women are leading in recent years: food, fashion and clothing, health and beauty, science and technology, and education.
 
Jenn Hyman brought couture fashion to everyday women with her idea to Rent the Runway. Morgan DeBaun supports Black journalists through Blavity. And Sandra Oh Lin is inspiring kids everywhere with KiwiCo activity boxes.
 
Readers learn about how the women featured risked their early careers, gave up their salaries, and sometimes even went against the approval of their families to follow their passions and start their own businesses. Today, these women are modern leaders worth billions of dollars and employing tens of thousands of individuals.
 
Young women today are embracing innovation and idea making, and the women profiled in Idea Makers will show them how that can change the world.
 

Lowey Bundy Sichol is an award-winning children’s author and MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Titles in her series From an Idea to . . . have received a 2020 Best STEM Book, a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection, and a 2020 ILA-CBC Children’s Choices Book. She is also the founder of Kids Idea Tank, the nation's biggest entrepreneurship competition for kids age 13 and younger. Lowey founded a specialized writing firm that composes MBA case studies for business schools, with work featured in business school classrooms internationally. She lives near Chicago, IL.

Introduction 

Part I: Food 
1: Kathleen King—Tate’s Cookies xx
2: Stacy Madison—Stacy’s Pita Chips xx
3: Christina Tosi—Milk Bar xx

Part II: Health and Beauty VII
4: Lisa Price—Carol’s Daughter xx
5: Payal Kadakia—ClassPass xx
6: Alli Webb—Drybar xx

Part III: Science and Technology VII
7: Anne Wojcicki—23andMe xx
8: Morgan DeBaun—Blavity xx
9: Jasmine Crowe—Goodr xx

Part IV: Education VII
10: Sandra Oh Lin—KiwiCo xx
11: Reshma Saujani—Girls Who Code xx
12: Cindy Mi—VIPKid xx

Part V: Clothing and Fashion VII
13: Heidi Zak—ThirdLove xx
14: Jenn Hyman—Rent the Runway xx
15: Sara Blakely—Spanx xx

Afterword 
Acknowledgments 
Notes