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Greater fortunes. More multimillionaires. Growing impact. We commemorate the tenth anniversary of our annual list of the most successful American women who made themselves celebrating the great advance of these 100 entrepreneurs: this year there are 38 billionaires, whose fortunes come from everything from cars to cosmetics and Chardonnay. This represents more than double the 18 we found in 2015. The minimum to enter the list? 350 million dollars, an increase with respect to the 250 million dollars of a decade ago, when we only classified 50 women.

These are the richest women in the United States with fortunes made by themselves

Prominent from the list of the richest women in the United States who made themselves

Kim Kardashian

19th position

Kim Kardashian

  • Net Heritage: 1.7 billion dollars
  • Source: Skin Care

In February, Skims, the Kardashian molding belt company, with estimated sales of almost 900 million dollars, presented Nikeskims, a new brand, along with the giant of footwear and sportswear. The product is expected to reach stores in the coming months. The beauty company Coty sold its 20 % participation in Skkn By Kim, the Kardashian skin care line, in March, and recorded losses of 71 million dollars as a result of divestment.

Maky Zanganeh

23rd position

Maky Zanganeh

  • Net Heritage: 1.5 billion dollars
  • Source: Biotechnology

Together with her husband Bob Duggan, Maky Zanganeh has guided Summit Therapeutics, developer of cancer medicines, a resounding and, incidentally, has become a multimillionaire. This multilingual executive began working in a robotic surgery company. Subsequently, he collaborated with Duggan to boost Pharmacyclics biotechnology, which developed a successful cancer medicine and sold to Abbvie for 21 billion dollars in 2015.

Lucy Guo

26th place

Lucy Guo

  • Net Heritage: 1.3 billion dollars
  • Source: Artificial Intelligence

Guo became the younger billionaire in the world to make herself in April, after a proposal for the sale of shares of people with privileged information promoted the value of the private company of artificial intelligence Scale AI to 25 billion dollars, compared to the 13 800 million dollars above. Guo co -founded Scale AI in 2016, but abandoned it in 2018 and, since then, has launched Passes, competitor of Patreon. Ancestically, it retained an estimated participation of almost 5 % in Scale AI, which represents most of its fortune. Read the article

Michele kang

28th place

Michele kang

  • Net Heritage: 1.2 billion dollars
  • Source: Health and Technology

Kang discovered his passion for women’s professional football in 2019. He currently owns three important clubs: the Washington Spirit of the NWSL, the Ol Lyonnes of the French Première Ligue and the London City Lionesses. Last year, Kang sold Cognizante, the health technology company that founded in 2008, to the Technological Giant Accenture for more than one billion dollars. Read the article

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

45th position

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

  • Net Heritage: 780 million dollars
  • Source: Music

The 43 -year -old pop star began its Cowboy Carter Ttour tour at the end of April, which will include 32 concerts in stadiums from nine cities in the United States and Europe this summer. The conversations about a residence in the Sphere de Las Vegas failed last year, and the tensions with the owner of the enclosure, James Dolan, intensified even more this spring when a video generated by Beyoncé was displayed by collecting the Sphere in his first two concerts, which led Dollan to send him a cease and withdrawal letter.

Annie Lamont

54th position

Annie Lamont

  • Net Heritage: 650 million dollars
  • Source: Risk Capital

The first lady of Connecticut co -founded and directs the Risk capital firm OAK HC/FT (the acronym means financial health and technology), which has $ 7.5 billion in gross assets, including shares in 39 companies with a value of $ 1 billion or more. Among the new companies of its portfolio are the financial technology Toku and the Medical Billing firm candid. The veteran risk capital firm previously worked for 28 years at Oak Investment Partners.

Gail Federici

61st position

Gail Federici

  • Net Heritage: 580 million dollars
  • Source: Hair care

Your hair care company, Wow color, with estimated revenues of 300 million dollars, is known for its Antifrizz products, which are sold in stores such as Sephora and Ulult Beauty. According to recent reports, Federici seeks to sell the company with an assessment of 1000 million dollars. This veteran of capillary care kneaded her first fortune when she and her co -founder, John Frieda, sold her homonymous brand for 450 million dollars in 2002.

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Emma Grede

  • Net Heritage: 405 million dollars
  • FUENTE : Apparel

Grede, partner of the Kardashian in several businesses, collaborates with the NFL, Fanatics and Kristin Juszczyk, wife of a fullback of the San Francisco 49ers (whose designs became famous after Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes used them) in the fashion brand off. The guest judge of Shark Tank also has 10% of cakes, a manufacturer of reusable covers that women wear under clothes, a rapidly growing company. Most of his fortune comes from Skims, from Kim Kardashian, number 20, where she is a product director. Recently he joined the Board of Directors of the Obama Foundation and launched its own podcast entitled “Aspire with Emma Gred”.

Débora Shoquist

97th position

Débora Shoquist

  • Net Heritage: 360 million dollars
  • Source: Nvidia

In her sixtee year as an Executive Vice President of Operations of Nvidia, Shoquist supervises the logistics and supply chain of the semiconductor company, something especially important given the tariffs imposed by President Trump and Nvidia’s efforts to transfer the production of chips of her partners to the US. Nvidia previously worked at JDS Uniphase, Coherent and Quantum. Since he joined Nvidia, he has sold shares for a value of almost 200 million dollars.

This article was originally published by Forbes Us.

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