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Studies have shown that successful female entrepreneurs start their businesses as a second or third profession. [citation needed] Because of their previous careers, female entrepreneurs enter the business world later on in life, around 40–60 years old.
Kalpana Saroj (born 1961) is an Indian business woman, entrepreneur and a TEDx speaker, [1] and the chairperson of Kamani Tubes in Mumbai, India.Known as Indian Woman entrepreneur, she bought the distressed assets of Kamani Tubes Company and successfully steered the company back to profitability.
In 2012, Fortune named her No. 8 on its Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs list. In 2008, Rashmi was named one of the World's Top 10 Women Influencers in Web 2.0 by Fast Company. [1] In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women. [2]
Dai is a successful entrepreneur, [2] and the only female co-founder of a major semiconductor company. [3] In 2015, she was listed as the 95th richest woman in the world by Forbes . [ 1 ] Her estimated net worth is US$1.3 billion, as of June 2024.
There were 337 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 4 April 2023, up from 327 in 2022. [1] Since 2021, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has been listed as the world's wealthiest woman. According to a 2021 billionaire census, women make up 11.9% of the billionaire cohort, and "just over half of all female billionaires are heiresses, with ...
Palmer was acknowledged in the World Bank report "Women's Economic Opportunities in the Formal Private Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean: A focus on Entrepreneurship in 2010 for her entrepreneurial pursuits and was cited as one of Jamaica's most successful female entrepreneurs". [5] [7]
Forbes magazine ranked Nooyi on the 2008 through 2017 lists of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. [7] [70] In 2016, Nooyi was the winner of the Academy of International Business (AIB) The International Executive of the Year Award. [71] She was named one of the "Best CEOs In The World" by the CEOWORLD magazine in 2018. [72]
This is a list of entrepreneurs by century. An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. [ 1 ] This list includes notable entrepreneurs.