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Dec 2019
49m 56s

Minted: Mariam Naficy (2018)

Guy Raz | Wondery
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In 2000, Mariam Naficy sold her first company, an online cosmetics store called Eve.com, for $110 million. Several years later, she got the entrepreneurial itch once again: she founded Minted.com, an online stationery store that solicits designs from artists all over the world. Today Minted is one of the biggest crowdsourcing platforms on the Internet. PLUS ... Show More
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