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Inc. Female Founders 2021 Inc. 5000 No. 996 (2024)Sasha Plavsic Ilia Beauty For stepping on the gas when the world slowed down. Sasha Plavsic had worked for years to grow her sustainable, natural-beauty brand, Ilia. She’d started with just a small line of credit, courtesy of her fathe...
Founders: David Weiner and Verena von Pfetten Launched: 2018 Gossamer is a biannual magazine focused on travel, design, beauty, wellness, art, culture and food through a cannabis lens. The company, which grew 127 percent in 2020 and is projecting a 250 percent increase in 2021, also includes...
This topical skin and hair and ingestible cannabis company focuses on relieving stress and tapping into adaptogens and an array of botanicals. Founder Kimberly Dillon, a cannabis industry vet, partners with minority-owned and female-founded hemp farms. Frigg’s revenue is up 200 percent in the f...
a master-hand in a milieu where pleasing looks are a precondition of employment (just as strength is for firefighters or an Indian passport for computer analysts), to play the role of slandered female, her professional dignity besmirched by the male chauvinist pigs in the CNN publicity departmen...
Of this, the company paid $65 million to thousands of female workers on the West Coast, $22.5 million in legal fees, and $17 million to overhaul its employment programs. As part of the agreement, Home Depot also set up a procedure to help more women get sales and management jobs within...
They replaced the electric furnace and its heat-protected worker, with an array of some 250KW of infrared quartz-halogen lamps with a water-cooled aluminum reflector behind them. The lamp array formed the upper half of the press. The lower half contained the female die and after pre-heating...
What's the capital of Uruguay? Who was the first female NASA astronaut? What exactly is Newton's Second Law of Motion? Oh, that's easy! Google. Google. Google. Believe it or not, there was a time when the world expected you to actually remember and analyze those dates, facts and oth...
They replaced the electric furnace and its heat-protected worker, with an array of some 250KW of infrared quartz-halogen lamps with a water-cooled aluminum reflector behind them. The lamp array formed the upper half of the press. The lower half contained the female die and after pre-heating...
Female mice were allowed to deliver their pups naturally, and were generally milked on days 7 and 9 postpartum. Mice were separated from their litters for approximately one hour prior to the milking procedure. After the one hour holding period, mice were induced to lactate using an ...