If there’s one factor about Kim Kardashian that we are able to agree on, it is that she is severe about her enterprise. Positive, you may argue over whether or not she’s a feminist icon or the embodiment of unrealistic beliefs till the cows come house, however one factor you can’t deny is her entrepreneurial spirit.
I am biased – I really like Kim with my entire soul – however even earlier than she burst onto the fact tv scene on E!’s Retaining Up With The Kardashians, she was busy operating Sprint, a clothes boutique she co-founded together with her sisters Kourtney and Khloe in 2006, whereas additionally working as a private stylist for the likes of Paris Hilton.
Since then, she’s constructed a worldwide empire that spans a number of industries, from gaming to magnificence to publishing, amassing billions of {dollars} of income (Forbes declared her a billionaire in 2021) and over 700 worldwide logos. Oh, and all of the whereas, she was mentioning a household of 4 youngsters. Certainly, that is fairly spectacular by anybody’s phrases, and particularly so much for one lady to attain earlier than her milestone forty third birthday?
Nonetheless, that is to not say she hasn’t performed some doubtful offers alongside the way in which, and there isn’t any doubt that a few of her enterprise ventures have been higher than others. Take the Kardashian Kard in partnership with MasterCard that Kim and her sisters launched in 2010 – a preloaded debit card that was swiftly taken off the market after criticism of sky-high charges. Then there was Kimono, the predecessor to Kim’s shapewear model SKIMS, which precipitated world outrage because of the appropriation of the Japanese phrase.
Nonetheless, as any nice entrepreneur would, Kim has proved herself adaptable, tenacious and resilient, studying from her failures and coming again stronger, with SKIMS reaching a whopping $ 4 billion valuation this yr. Critically spectacular.
Moreover, Kim gave personal fairness investing a go, becoming a member of forces with skilled personal fairness govt Jay Sammons to start out Skky Companions, a brand new agency focussing on media and client investments in 2022. Together with her billion-dollar enterprise acumen, it is sensible. So, with out additional ado, we have rounded all of her enterprise ventures up and ranked them so as of greatness as a result of, fairly frankly, it isn’t unhealthy for a woman “with no expertise”.