{"product_id":"girls-who-run-the-world-31-ceos-who-mean-business-isbn-9780593119075","title":"Girls Who Run the World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe perfect gift for future entrepreneurs! Part biography, part business how-to, and fully empowering, this book shows that\u003cb\u003e y\u003cb\u003eou're never too young to dream BIG! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWith colorful portraits, fun interviews and DIY tips, \u003ci\u003eGirls Who Run the World\u003c\/i\u003e features the success stories of 31 leading ladies today of companies like Rent the Runway, PopSugar, and Soul Cycle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGirls run biotech companies.\u003cbr\u003eGirls run online fashion sites.\u003cbr\u003eGirls run environmental enterprises. \u003cbr\u003eThey are creative. They are inventive. They mean business. \u003cbr\u003eGirls run the world.\u003cbr\u003eThis collection gives girls of all ages the tools they need to follow their passions, turn ideas into reality and break barriers in the business world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINCLUDES:\u003cbr\u003eJenn Hyman, Rent the Runway\u003cbr\u003eSara Blakely, Spanx\u003cbr\u003eEmma Mcilroy, Wildfang\u003cbr\u003eKatrina Lake, Stitch Fix\u003cbr\u003eNatasha Case, Coolhaus\u003cbr\u003eDiane Campbell, The Candy Store\u003cbr\u003eKara Goldin, Hint Water\u003cbr\u003eAnne Wojcicki, 23andMe\u003cbr\u003eRachel Haurwitz, Caribou Bioscience\u003cbr\u003eNina Tandon, EpiBone\u003cbr\u003eJessica Matthews, Uncharted Power\u003cbr\u003eJane Chen, Embrace \u003cbr\u003eEmily Núñez Cavness, Sword \u0026amp; Plough\u003cbr\u003eHannah Lavon, Pals\u003cbr\u003eLeslie Blodgett, Bare Escentuals\/Bare Minerals\u003cbr\u003eKatia Beauchamp, Birchbox\u003cbr\u003eEmily Weiss, Glossier\u003cbr\u003eChristina Stembel, Farmgirl Flowers\u003cbr\u003eMariam Naficy, Minted\u003cbr\u003eMaci Peterson, On Second Thought\u003cbr\u003eStephanie Lampkin, Blendoor\u003cbr\u003eSarah Leary, Nextdoor\u003cbr\u003eAmber Venz, RewardStyle\u003cbr\u003eLisa Sugar, Pop Sugar\u003cbr\u003eBeatriz Acevedo, MiTu network\u003cbr\u003eJulie Rice and Elizabeth Cutler, Soul Cycle\u003cbr\u003eSuzy Batiz, Poo-Pourri\u003cbr\u003eTina Sharkey, Brandless\u003cbr\u003eJesse Genet, Lumi\u003cbr\u003eTracy Young, Plan GridFEATURED ON NPR'S \u003ci\u003eALL THINGS CONSIDERED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Kapp's trailblazing CEOs are humble about their formative years, frank about the daunting challenges they encountered, and relentlessly encouraging.\" —\u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Just reading these stories will give you a confidence boost! Here are 30 incredible women with plenty of secrets to share; they'll show you that your journey may have bumps, and it probably won't be a straight path, but if you keep going you will make amazing things happen.” –Claire Shipman, author of NYT bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Confidence Code for Girls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eGirls Who Run the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern-day encyclopedia of the women who are changing the world today, period.\" —Sophia Amoruso, Founder \u0026amp; CEO, Girlboss, a media company dedicated to empowering women in business, and author of NYT bestseller #Girlboss.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Diana Kapp brings us one of the most important gifts of all: inspiration for the next generation to create lives fueled with equal parts purpose and ambition. This book is a joyful testament to the power of girls, the power of immigrants, and the unlimited potential for young people everywhere to dream boldly.”\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eLaurene Powell Jobs, Founder, Emerson Collective and College Track. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"All girls should dare to dream big, and \u003ci\u003eGirls Who Run the World\u003c\/i\u003e gives them the tools to not only achieve those dreams, but to change the world while they’re doing it.\"—Arianna Huffington, Founder \u0026amp; CEO, Thrive Global\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e“Girls Who Run the World \u003c\/i\u003eis a woman-to-woman playbook that spotlights bold businesswomen who have achieved success and done it in their own way. In these pages, Kapp reminds all women that if we work hard as one team and support one another, there is no limit to how far we will go.” – Former Secretary of State, Madeleine K. Albright\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e “The startup community needs more female and underrepresented founders. Diana Kapp's book is sure to inspire future female founders from all backgrounds to start companies that will change the world. These profiles will give them the tactics and conviction to take a risk on their idea and create a product people will tell their friends about.”—Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator and Co-chairman of OpenAI\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  “The book allows us to imagine success by seeing the Girl CEOs accomplish it\u003cb\u003e.”\u003c\/b\u003e—Gitanjali Rao, age 14, 2017 winner of Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Relentlessly upbeat… the final chapters offer general encouragement and guidance on creating a business plan and elevator pitch, managing finances, and other necessary skills.”\u003ci\u003e —Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The empowering tone will inspire girls to dream big, then break barriers in the business world. Accessible for readers across middle and high school.\" \u003ci\u003e—School Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003eDiana Kapp is a business journalist with an MBA from Stanford University who has written about education and entrepreneurism for most of the major media outlets. \u003ci\u003eGirls Who Run the World\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBijou is an artist and illustrator from Los Angeles. She graduated with distinction from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Selected clients include: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003eNike, Cinespia, \u003ci\u003eELLE,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003egirlboss, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle,\u003c\/i\u003e Little White Lies, Penguin Books, Refinery29, Rihanna, Stance Socks, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times, Glamour, W, \u003c\/i\u003eban.do, and Starbucks.Although often neglected in history books, girls have been running things behind the scenes forever. The first solar-heated home? Developed by a woman. The daily-appreciated dishwasher? Woman. The creator of the Brooklyn Bridge? Woman again. That clever mistake-cover-upper, Liquid Paper? A woman concocted it in her kitchen blender. The list goes on: windshield wipers, the board game Monopoly, the ice cream maker, even the trusty basic brown bag. All invented by women. \u003cbr\u003e But forget history—there are women out there today who most people have never heard of, breaking barriers this very second. \u003cbr\u003e Back at the beginning of my career, I attended Stanford Graduate School of Business, where I went to learn about turning big ideas into companies to better our world. Sitting in those lecture halls studying the business greats, I kept wondering: Where are the women? Almost all the companies we were being taught to admire were founded by men. \u003cbr\u003e When I graduated, I became a journalist in San Francisco, the beating heart of the tech revolution, covering the truly transformative ideas all around me—stem cells, virtual reality, 3-D printing, driverless cars. Again, I found myself asking: Where are the women? Sure, there are female-founded companies with name recognition, but the few out there succeeding are not visible enough. Not even close. \u003cbr\u003e You may have heard the troubling stats before. There are still so few women at the top. (And it’s getting worse—in 2018 the number of female CEOs at top companies\u003ci\u003e fell\u003c\/i\u003e 25 percent from 2017!) Women in business start out equal to men in terms of jobs and pay, but the drop-off begins with the first promotion to management. And businesses founded exclusively by women snag only 2.7 percent of venture capital dollars. \u003cbr\u003e These statistics are begging to be altered. And now is the moment— your moment—to defy them. Venture capitalists (VCs) are desperate to fund females—they need the missing half of our nation’s brain cells— but in order for a woman to start the next Apple or Amazon, she needs to believe it is possible. To see herself in that role. \u003cbr\u003e And when girls do land businesses, guess what? Substantial research finds that they \u003ci\u003eoutperform\u003c\/i\u003e the guys, which is why venture capitalists are frantic to bring women entrepreneurs into their investment portfolios. A 2013 study of privately held technology companies found those with at least one woman founder have a 35 percent higher return on investment. A 2018 Boston Consulting Group study found that companies led or co-led by women generate 10 percent more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period than those led by all-male teams. They use investment money more efficiently, too: for every dollar of funding, these start-ups generated 78 cents, while male-founded start-ups generated just 31 cents. Why \u003ci\u003ewouldn’t\u003c\/i\u003e you bet on female CEOs? \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGirls Who Run the World\u003c\/i\u003e features thirty-one women who defied the statistics and founded awesome businesses, becoming emblems of what is possible. They mastered the art of speaking up and \u003ci\u003eloud\u003c\/i\u003e, they took big risks with big money, they overreached and made mistakes, and ultimately they believed in their own brains, persisted, and hit it big. \u003cbr\u003e In the pages that follow, you’ll find real trade secrets from the front lines of CEO life and insider stories that reveal what it’s really like to be a woman in business, with millions of dollars at stake. \u003cbr\u003e It’s rare to gain this level of access to entrepreneurs, to see how the money and deals get made. I was lucky enough to interview twenty-eight of these thirty-one darn busy ladies, so all this comes straight from them. You will find no candy coating here, no glossing over of trip-ups. The I-wish-I-could-do-that-over moments are on full display. You will learn that there is no straight line to “making bank.” Every successful business takes a zigzag course to the top, and every start-up journey is rough, a twenty-four-hour-a-day sprint on a tightrope. Over a fire. In a lightning storm. Just maintaining confidence, let alone a balance in the bank, is a battle. The idea known as Murphy’s Law applies: whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. Competitors come out of nowhere. Delivery trucks break down. Checks bounce and employees flake. And yet, as you’ll see, all that chaos is what makes being CEO so darn satisfying. You’re in the hot seat, solving problems every hour of that daily sprint so that you can say, “I made something, and it matters. \u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e matter.” \u003cbr\u003e This book is a strong “yes, please” to moneymaking, an idea that has been pretty taboo for girls for, oh, forever. But until we matter \u003ci\u003efinancially\u003c\/i\u003e, our voices won’t be heard. And until we understand money— know how much we have, how much we need, how to invest it, account for it, pay taxes on it, and feel comfortable dealing with it—we are going to finish second, behind the boys. Money is tied to power. Money is tied to \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c\/i\u003e. It just is. \u003cbr\u003e So cozy up with these thirty-one hotshots, and you’ll start absorbing their can-do spirit. Their wisdom and ways will supercharge you far beyond business, too. Need a confidence boost as you power through your history report? Having trouble believing you can put together a successful election campaign for student council? Revisit the againstall-odds stories gathered here; they will inspire you to go for it, double down, recommit. After all, the tools you need to invent world-changing things are the tools you need for life: doggedness, heart, community, faith, and a candy stash for emergencies. \u003cbr\u003e Girls, you are inventive and powerful. You are the sharpest tacks around. No doubt the next Apple or Amazon will come from someone who looks just like you (it might even be you). A girl is going to invent a machine that sucks all the plastic out of the oceans. Another one will mastermind a tiny pill with every critical nutrient, eliminating world hunger. One more will pioneer ___________ (fill in the blank). \u003cbr\u003e So here you go, clever girl, natural-born leader. Don’t wait. Go run the world.","brand":"Delacorte Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301004202213,"sku":"NP9780593119075","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593119075.jpg?v=1767728168","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/girls-who-run-the-world-31-ceos-who-mean-business-isbn-9780593119075","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}