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Bobbi Brown: Scaling up, then starting over (Bobbi Brown Cosmetics & Jones Road) | Masters of Scale

About Bobbi

  • Founded Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, grown into a billion-dollar global brand (by 2016)
  • Created Jones Road Beauty, $160M revenue with 40+ employees in 2024
  • Named to TIME100 “Most Influential People in the World” list
  • Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame; Fortune Most Powerful Women honoree
  • Best-selling author; Glamour Woman of the Year; Forbes “50 Over 50” honoree

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She built her first company, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, into a billion-dollar brand. But when things soured between her and her parent company, Estée Lauder, she had a choice: retire from the industry, or reinvent herself with a new brand. Brown joins host Jeff Berman to reveal the lessons she learned from scaling – and leaving – her first company. She’s leveraging those decades of insights now in her new venture: Jones Road Beauty.

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