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- JIN SOOK CHANG
$1.5 billion
AGE: 56
RESIDENCE: Beverly Hills,
California
SELF-MADE SCORE: 10
Forever 21, the fast- fashion
chain she owns and runs
with her husband, Do Won,
invested in its first startup in
September 2018. It led an $8
million round in fellow Los
Angeles business DailyLook,
a high-end fashion subscrip-
tion service. Chang’s daugh-
ters, who work at Forever 21,
opened the company’s beau-
ty retailer Riley Rose in late
2017; it now has 14 stores. - GAIL MILLER
$1.5 billion
AGE: 75
RESIDENCE: Salt Lake City
SELF-MADE SCORE: 7
After her husband’s death
in 2009, Miller became sole
owner and chairman of Larry
H. Miller Management, with
more than 80 companies,
including movie theaters
and the NBA’s Utah Jazz. In
early 2017, Miller moved the
basketball team into a legacy
trust to keep it in the family
and the state. After the Jazz, - KATHY FIELDS
$1.5 billion
AGE: 61 RESIDENCE: San Francisco
SELF-MADE SCORE: 8 - KATIE RODAN
$1.5 billion
AGE: 64 RESIDENCE: San Francisco
SELF-MADE SCORE: 8
This year marked a return to its roots for Rodan + Fields,
the skin care company created by these two dermatologists
and powered by a multilevel marketing force of 300,000
“consultants.” The duo started their entrepreneurial journey
in the 1990s with acne treatment Proactiv, which became
popular with teens; they sold their rights to it in 2016. In
February, Rodan + Fields added a teenage acne line to its
mostly anti-aging lineup, with the goal of expanding its
customer base. Private equity firm TPG Capital spent $1
billion for a 25% stake in Rodan + Fields in May 2018.
18. EREN OZMEN
$1.4 billion
AGE: 60 RESIDENCE: Reno, Nevada
SELF-MADE SCORE: 9
She and husband Fatih, both Turkish immigrants, own and
run aerospace and defense firm Sierra Nevada Corp. Because
she has 51% (and he 49%), the firm is one of the nation’s
biggest female-owned government contractors. The company
has already spent more than half a billion on its mission to
send Dream Chaser, a reusable spacecraft, into space. After
passing a recent NASA test, it is on track to launch its first
unmanned supply mission in spring 2021.
18. JAYSHREE ULLAL
$1.4 billion
AGE: 58 RESIDENCE: Saratoga, California
SELF-MADE SCORE: 6
After a nearly four-year patent-infringement battle, computer
networking firm Arista settled with Cisco in August 2018,
agreeing to pay Ullal’s former employer $400 million. Ullal
has served as president and CEO of Arista since 2008 and
owns about 5% of the company’s stock. A U.K. native who
spent her childhood in New Delhi, India, she moved to the
Bay Area to attend college at San Francisco State University.
her most valuable business
is the car dealership that she
and Larry opened in 1979. It
is now worth an estimated
$640 million-plus.