Changing Our World Through Beauty | How I Built This with Guy Raz | NPR
Bossy Cosmetics founder Aisha Fatima Dozie tells Guy Raz how two decades in investment banking led to a beauty brand built on women's empowerment, why venture capital ignored her cold emails, how the word 'bossy' became untrademarkable, and how a supply chain spread across countries met 2020. TL;DR Dozie left banking, got no replies from VCs, started small with a mission to empower women to look, feel and do good, and says there has never been a lower barrier to trying a tiny product range. Live Q&A recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, so work-from-home and pandemic context runs throughout. Guest name spelling confirmed from the video description. Details come from machine-generated captions and the guest's own claims; business figures are not independently checked. Topics are untimed; metadata follows YouTube. Source: https://youtubetotranscript.com/transcript?v=Qpf7qqJDZ6M
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Bossy Cosmetics founder Aisha Fatima Dozie tells Guy Raz how two decades in investment banking led to a beauty brand built on women's empowerment, why venture capital ignored her cold emails, how the word 'bossy' became untrademarkable, and how a supply chain spread across countries met 2020. TL;DR Dozie left banking, got no replies from VCs, started small with a mission to empower women to look, feel and do good, and says there has never been a lower barrier to trying a tiny product range. Live Q&A recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, so work-from-home and pandemic context runs throughout. Guest name spelling confirmed from the video description. Details come from machine-generated captions and the guest's own claims; business figures are not independently checked. Topics are untimed; metadata follows YouTube. Source: https://youtubetotranscript.com/transcript?v=Qpf7qqJDZ6M