Forbes - USA (2019-06-30)

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74. KARISSA

BODNAR

$275 million

AGE: 29

RESIDENCE: Los Angeles

SELF-MADE SCORE: 9

Bodnar grew up in a town of

6,000 with no beauty stores

so she started whipping up

her own formulas in mid-

dle school and selling them

to neighbors. After her friend

died of cancer, she left her

job at L’Oréal to start Thrive

Causemetics, a vegan direct-

to-consumer brand, in 2015.

Thrive says it has donat-

ed over 1 million products to

charities and sells one mas-

cara every eight seconds.

76. MARCIA PAGE
    $250 million
    AGE: 58 RESIDENCE:
    Minneapolis
    SELF-MADE SCORE: 8
    Page chairs Minneapolis-
    based Värde Partners, which
    launched in 1993. She and
    her two cofounders came out
    of Cargill’s merchant banking
    business, which they helped
    build in the 1980s. Värde has
    $14 billion in assets under
    management and specializes
    in complex debt investments;
    it operates hedge funds and
    invests via private equity, real
    estate, mortgage and direct-
    lending strategies.


77. TONI KO
    $270 million
    AGE: 46
    RESIDENCE: Los Angeles
    SELF-MADE SCORE: 9
    The founder of NYX Cosmet-
    ics sold her affordable beau-
    ty brand to L’Oréal in a deal
    worth $500 million in 2014.
    Ko has amassed $200 mil-
    lion in California real estate.
    She also has stakes in sever-
    al women-owned businesses
    through her firm, Butter Ven-
    tures, and a sunglasses line
    that she renamed Thomas
    James LA in 2018.

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CHANGE IN WEALTH KEY: UP DOWN UNCHANGED RETURNEE SELF-MADE SCORE: 0 = INHERITED, 10 = SELF-MADE