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☆ The Mother of Invention
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Julia Boorstin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThe Mother of InventionSociety often comes up short when it comes to working mothers. Inspired by their personal and professional experiences, Upwards Co-Founder & CEO Jessica Chang, and Bobbie Co-Founder & CEO Laura Modi, set out to address shortcomings in the market and founded businesses to help other families. They discuss leadership as working moms, navigating entrepreneurship and the true power that comes from defying expectations and beating the odds.

Persons: Jessica Chang, Bobbie Co, Laura Modi Organizations: Invention Society

☆ Laura Modi: CNBC Changemakers for Women's History Month
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

The women named to the CNBC Changemakers list are creating a pattern of what it takes to defy the odds, innovate and thrive in a volatile business landscape. From startup founders to S&P 500 C-suite growth drivers, from personalities shaking up the media industry to figures taking women's sports further into the mainstream, the 2024 Changemakers have broken new ground and set the stage for others to follow. Click here to view the inaugural list and continuing coverage for Women's History Month.

Organizations: CNBC

☆ CNBC Changemakers: Fortune 500 CEOs, Naomi Osaka and Alex Cooper share a success secret
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Julia Boorstin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Leading the way are health care, with 22%; tech, with 14%; and consumer products and financial services, tied at 10%. Kate Ryder is closing major gaps in women's and family health care with Maven. Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder and chief operating officer at Cloudflare, is giving companies AI tools to bolster cybersecurity and lower costs for vulnerable, critical infrastructure providers, including schools and local election systems. The Changemakers serve as a reminder that success is a result of leading in ways that are authentic. In the book she explored the concept of "reformers" — women working to fix broken systems.

Persons: Anat Ashkenazi, Eli Lilly, Svanika Balasubramanian, Bobbie, Laura Modi, Baby2Baby, Norah Weinstein, Kelly Sawyer Patricof, Alex Cooper, Tracee Ellis Ross, Naomi Osaka, Balasubramanian, Jessica Chang, Maayan Cohen, Kate Ryder, Maven, Monique Rodriguez, Jessica Berman, Kathy Hannun, Clara Shih, Michelle Zatlyn, Kristin Peck, Julia Boorstin Organizations: CNBC, U.S, RePurpose Global, rePurpose, Women's Soccer League, Dandelion Energy, cybersecurity Locations: Changemakers, Cloudflare

☆ This CEO left an exec job at Airbnb to start her own baby formula company—in 2022, it brought in $84 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Laura Modi wasn't looking for a reason to quit her job as she walked the aisles of her local pharmacy at 3 a.m. — she just wanted to find something to calm her crying newborn. Instead, hidden between a rack of magazines and discounted bottles of sunscreen, she found a multi-million dollar business idea: organic baby formula. It was 2016, and Modi had given birth to her daughter just five days earlier. In 2017, when Modi's daughter turned one, she decided to quit her job as Airbnb's head of hospitality and set out to create a baby formula with cleaner ingredients. In 2022, Bobbie's revenue topped $84 million, despite last year's nationwide shortage of baby formula, which was triggered by supply chain issues and the discovery of the life-threatening pathogen cronobacter in powdered formulas.

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