Women Entrepreneurs Who Built Substantial Businesses

A tour of women who built companies of real size across very different trades: furniture, roofing supplies, smartphone glass, oil, betting, biotech, beauty, catalogues and television. Each entry is about how the business actually worked, its model and its scale, and is honest about the starting points, from immigrant poverty to family money, a husband's capital or a parent's firm. Read it for the range of routes into business rather than a single story of grit, and for the variety of ways a company can be built.