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☆ I got married quickly in my 20s after getting pregnant. Now I'm 53, divorced, and solo polyamorous — and I'll never go back to monogamy.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

After they divorced, she discovered polyamory and has been solo polyamorous for three years. Solo polyamory means having multiple partners, no primary partner, and an independent lifestyle. Solo polyamory means I have multiple relationships, but my primary relationship is with myselfTo me, solo polyamory means having relationships that are fulfilling, meaningful, and loving, but my primary relationship is with myself. I don't know if I'll be solo polyamorous forever, but I'll never go back to monogamy. I could see myself having one primary relationship later in life.

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☆ 35-year-old CEO of $100 million company: I 'don’t remember' anything I learned in college—here's why it was valuable anyway
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

College prepared Pinky Cole well to be the CEO of a $100 million company, she says — just not in the way you might think. When I went to college, all the stuff that I learned, I don't remember [any] of it," Cole tells CNBC Make It. And while it's certainly possible to connect with high-powered people without a shared academic experience, college graduates tend to have better career prospects and financial outcomes than high school-only graduates. College graduates earned 75% more last year, on average, according to the San Francisco Fed, a research nonprofit. College graduates also reported a 2% unemployment rate last year, compared with 7% for their counterparts, the National Center for Education Statistics reported.

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☆ 35-year-old CEO of a $100 million company: Getting fired was the 'best thing that ever happened to me'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

"[Getting fired] was the best thing that could have happened to me, because it made me go all in on my business," Cole, 35, the CEO and founder of Atlanta-based vegan burger chain Slutty Vegan, tells CNBC Make It. Slutty Vegan is worth $100 million, Cole told Forbes last year. She'd also spent about four months building Slutty Vegan as a side hustle, hawking vegan burgers from a shared commercial kitchen. That's partly why Cole got fired, she told Make It last year — spending too much time focusing on her new business. Perhaps Slutty Vegan had long-term potential, Cole recalls thinking.

Persons: Pinky Cole, She'd, Cole, Viola Davis, Spike Lee, Snoop Dogg Organizations: Atlanta, CNBC, Forbes Locations: Georgia, New York, Texas

But the Fearless Fund is a tiny player in the approximately $200 billion global venture capital market. Less than 1% of venture capital funding goes to businesses owned by Black and Hispanic women, according to the nonprofit advocacy group Digitalundivided. The lawsuit against the Fearless Fund was filed by Edward Blum, the conservative activist who filed the affirmative action cases before the Supreme Court. Fearless Fund has invested more than $2 million in Thirteen Lune, founded by Nyako Griego. The combined share of venture capital funding received by Black and Latina founders briefly surpassed 1% in 2021 before dipping back below that threshold in 2022, according to Digitalundivided.

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☆ 36-year-old CEO took Philly cheesesteaks to Atlanta, sold over $2.3 million at one store in the last year—now he wants to help others do the same
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Frank Holland | In Frank-Holland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Big Dave's Cheesesteaks founder and CEO Derrick Hayes is cooking up what he hopes will be his most delicious offering yet: a chance to own a franchise. On Thursday, Hayes will begin accepting official applications to purchase a Big Dave's Cheesesteaks franchise. From water ice to cheesesteaksBig Dave's Cheesesteaks started as Big Dave's Water Ice, as Italian ice is known is Philadelphia, in a gas station in Dunwoody, Georgia, in 2014. Derrick Hayes Source: William SterlingAfter failing to gain traction selling frozen treats, Hayes switched to cheesesteaks. The two connected to discuss repairs to Big Dave's and community outreach during the pandemic.

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☆ A Vegan Restaurateur and a Meat Connoisseur Find ‘No Ordinary Love’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Tammy La Gorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Aisha Kamaria Cole, who goes by the name Pinky Cole, has been called a visionary and a provocateur. She also has a knack for helping meat eaters step outside their comfort zones at her plant-based burger chain, Slutty Vegan. Stepping outside her own comfort zone became a priority when she met Derrick Jermaine Hayes, the founder of Big Dave’s Cheesesteaks in June 2020. “Before I met him, I never would have talked to anybody that has a cheesesteak restaurant,” she said. Not in a romantic way, anyway, because of her vegan principles.

Persons: Aisha Kamaria Cole, Pinky Cole, Derrick Jermaine Hayes, Big, George Floyd, Hayes Organizations: ” Locations: Atlanta, Big

☆ In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Lizzy Caplan Makes a Mess
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Despite spray tans and brief stints as a blonde, she could rarely convince producers to see her as the heroine, the nice girl. “That’s the journey of every brunette.”The joke came by way of a video call in early April from her home in North London. (She and her husband, the English actor Tom Riley, spend half the year there and the other half in Los Angeles.) Jesse Eisenberg, her co-star in the FX limited series “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” expressed a similar observation. “She has such an unusual, distinctive quality of world weariness and humor, jadedness, but also hopefulness,” he said in a phone interview.

☆ Slutty Vegan, the buzzy $100 million restaurant empire backed by Shake Shack's Danny Meyer, faces wage theft lawsuits in two states
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Three employees are filing a lawsuit against Brooklyn's Slutty Vegan restaurant. The workers claim the restaurant failed to pay bonuses, did not adequately compensate for overtime, and miscalculated paychecks, according to the lawsuit. Founder Pinky Cole is also facing a lawsuit from an employee of her Atlanta restaurant Bar Vegan over alleged wage theft. Slutty Vegan opened its Brooklyn location in September 2022. Cole addressed the lawsuit in an Instagram post, writing "I don't lie, I don't steal and more importantly, I DON'T PLAY WITH PEOPLE'S MONEY."

☆ I was never a chef and never had a business plan — and now I'm building a vegan food empire worth $100 million
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I'm not a trained chef, but my restaurant business is now valued at $100 million with eight locations, four food trucks, and a sister company. When Slutty Vegan first came to me I thought, 'Oh, 'slutty' and 'vegan' don't go together, but I can make them go together and make something really cool.' I'm introducing people to vegan food in a way that's fun and familiar. I just wanted to get people's attention and start a conversation about vegan food. I really got luckyI chose New York for my first Slutty Vegan location outside of the South because it represents the US as a whole.

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