’ list worth $440 million. The only other self-made woman on theWhen Pierson was a sophomore at Boston University in 2015, she couldn’t find time to visit her favorite websites, so decided to create a newsletter that would curate the culture, business, beauty and wellness content she and her friends wanted to read. She first told people she was working as an intern for a cool newsletter company. “I didn’t want to say I was the founder,” she explains, partly because she lacked confidence.
Inside Newsette, she also started creative agency Newland, which creates TikTok channels for clients and helps them find influencers to market their brands, in 2020. Its first campaign was for Amazon on International Women’s Day 2020, highlighting 20 small businesses started by women.
Her mother grew up poor in Colombia and eventually became an oral surgeon and her father, who grew up in Niagara Falls, New York, owns car dealerships in Jacksonville, Florida–where Pierson was raised. As a young child Pierson had trouble sleeping; she was bothered by the fact that there was black tape on one side of her bed but not the other–it wasn’t even. She developed rituals including looking under the bed until it “felt right.
Driven nearly to a point of excess, Pierson says she took her first one week vacation in four years last month. “I couldn’t relax,” she says. “Nothing brings me as much happiness as building companies.” Still, she says that her OCD has evolved but not disappeared; she’s learned to not only cope but hopefully also be an inspiration to others.
Does she call herself “latinx”?
Latinx? Wow, and the racists are the others.
That racial slur use is peak performance
Have you asked her if she wants to be called Latinx, great white savior forbes?
Latinx lol. Enjoy losing the Latinx vote at the midterms. 🤡
Wow..😲
Why do pink people call Latinos or Hispanics, latinx?