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and secure, Tabriz
manages Google’s
“project zero” team of
good-guy elite hackers.
Bill Liu
AGE 36
Chairman and CEO,
Royole
You might not have
heard of Royole, but
Liu’s $5 billion company
made the world’s first
foldable phone screen,
which it debuted in
- The “FlexPai”
showcased Royole’s
flexible technology,
which it sells from
Shenzhen to manufac-
turers everywhere.
Carl Pei
AGE 29
Cofounder, OnePlus
Born in China and
raised in Sweden,
Pei built a cell phone
phenom that’s more
popular in India than
Apple, with 33% of the
premium smartphone
market—slightly less
share than Samsung’s.
Cal Henderson
AGE 38
CTO, cofounder, Slack
Henderson helped de-
sign Slack as an auxil-
iary project. Making
users feel as if they
were part of some-
thing more than the
daily grind, Slack took
off. Now the company
is prepared to go pub-
lic with 1,500 employ-
ees, 10 million active
users, and a $17 billion
valuation.
Alison Atwell
AGE 31
Voice user interface
designer, Amazon
Hello, Alison. Think of
Atwell as Alexa’s voice
coach, helping the ma-
chine understand how
humans really talk. She
helps companies big
(like Sony and Disney)
and small better use
Alexa to communicate
with customers.
Michael
Mignano
AGE 36
CEO, cofounder, Anchor
Seeing firsthand how
hard it was to make his
own podcast, Mignano
cofounded Anchor
to help others get
started. His old bosses
at Aviar y and Adobe
helped with funding.
This year, Spotify
bought Anchor for
$150 million.
Parisa Tabriz
AGE 36
Senior director of
engineering for Chrome,
Google
They call her the
“browser boss.” Tabriz
is responsible for
Google Chrome, the
gateway to the Inter-
net for millions of
users. In addition to
keeping Chrome safe
JUST 10% OF THE WORLD’S VENTURE CAPITAL–backed startups worth
$1 billion had a female founder as of last year. Bose, the 27-year-
old cofounder of fashion and lifestyle marketplace Zilingo, is
set to join that too-exclusive club. Along with onetime neighbor
and current CTO Dhruv Kapoor, she launched the four-year-old
Singapore-based startup after visiting Bangkok’s Chatuchak
market and realizing its merchants had no easy way to sell their
goods online. What started as an aggregator of small fashion
retailers has since expanded into business-to-business offerings, such as
supply-chain tools, and has tapped into Southeast Asia’s booming Internet con-
nectivity and smartphone adoption. Zilingo’s latest round of funding in February
was led by Sequoia Capital and Temasek Holdings (the sovereign wealth fund
of Singapore), raising $226 million. That valued the firm—with 600 employees
across eight countries —at $970 million, putting it within a rounding error of
unicornship.
Ankiti
Bose
AGE 27
CEO and
cofounder,
Zilingo
steph korey & jen rubio
cofounders both age 31
Since shipping their first soon-to-be-iconic
minimalist suitcase in early 2016, Away’s
Rubio and Korey have sold more than a million
bags. They posted $150 million in sales in
2018 and expect to double that this year.
Away is now valued at $1.4 billion.
kylie jenner
founder age 21
That’s a lot of lip kits! Jenner’s Kylie
Cosmetics partnership with Ulta Beauty
helped the chain ring up larger than expected
9.4% year-over-year sales growth. Kylie
Cosmetics and Jenner have a combined
AWAY 150 million followers on Instagram.
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COSMETICS
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