Whether a startup or a multinational company, no matter the size and type, building a business is not an overnight process. There is no shortcut to making your business a big hit. It requires adequate time, patience, funds, and resources to make your business the talk of the town. Along with all these, a creative and intelligent mind is needed to make the business a huge success. When talking about successful business tycoons, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk are some of the names that come to our minds. However, there are many popular and successful female entrepreneurs who are nowhere less than male entrepreneurs.

Whether in sports, business, or entertainment, no matter the industry, women are giving tough competition to men in every niche. And the business world is no exception. Women are strong, fierce, and powerful, and compete well against men in every industry. There are many female entrepreneurs who are actually shaping the world.

In this blog, we have mentioned a list of the top 7 successful female entrepreneurs who have taken the business world by storm.

Without further delay, let’s find out.

Top 7 Female Entrepreneurs Popular Worldwide

• Sheryl Sandberg

Born in 1969, Sheryl Sandberg is one of the well-known business personalities famous globally. She is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. She served as a chief operating officer for Meta Platforms from 2008 to 2022. Sheryl is also a founder and owner of the nonprofit organization—LeanIn.Org which inspires women to achieve their goals.

Sheryl has contributed a lot to the success of Facebook and helped the company become of the biggest brands in the world. Before Sheryl joined Facebook, she served as a vice president for global online sales and operations at Google. She is a billionaire who has even been featured in the billionaire’s list by Forbes Magazine in 2021. She is an inspiration to many budding entrepreneurs who want to kickstart their business careers. 

• Tory Burch

The following famous name on the list is Tory Burch. She is a celebrated American entrepreneur, fashion designer, and philanthropist. She runs and manages her own brand named Tory Burch LLC. The brand stocks a luxury range of clothes, handbags, shoes, and other accessories for women. 

It was in the year 2020 when Forbes ranked Tory as the 88th most powerful woman worldwide. 

• Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi is a significant and powerful personality in the business world. She is an Indian-American female entrepreneur and former CEO and chairperson of PepsiCo. She has even been featured among the 100 most powerful women in the world. That’s not all!

Forbes Magazine ranked Indra the 2nd most powerful woman in the world in 2015 and 2017. Indra is also one of the board members of Amazon and the International Cricket Council.

• Melanie Perkins

The world is loaded with a few successful young entrepreneurs and Melanie Perkins is one of them. Born in 1987, Melanie is a famous Australian entrepreneur who experienced the taste of success at a very young age.

She is the co-founder and CEO of Canva which is an Australian Graphic design company. Melanie is one of the youngest woman CEOs of a tech start-up company worth over $1 billion. She has also been ranked as one of the wealthiest females in Australia in 2021. 

• Caterina Fake

Caterina Fake is a well-known American businesswoman recognized worldwide. She is the co-founder of two big brands: Flickr and Hunch. To people’s knowledge, Flickr is an image and video hosting service provider while Hunch was an American company that used to provide product recommendations. Caterina even supports many non-profit organizations and has even served as a chairwoman for Etsy. 

She is also recognized as an angel investor in Silicon Valley. 

• Cher Wang

Cher Wang is another popular and successful female entrepreneur in the world. She is a co-founder and chairperson of the big giant company, HTC Corporation, making her one of the victorious females in the world of technology and computers. 

As per the Forbes edition of 2014, she was the 54th most powerful woman worldwide. 

• Sophia Amoruso

Sophia Christina Amoruso is an American female business personality who is the founder & former owner of  Nasty Gal. Nasty Gal is a one-stop destination to buy high-quality clothes and fashionable accessories for women.

It was in the year 2012 when Inc. Magazine ranked Nasty Gal as one of “the fastest growing companies”. Apart from business, Sophia has also been part of some TV shows like House of Style and Project Runway All Stars. 

Let’s Wrap Up

Apart from the above, Lori Greiner, Nita Mukesh Ambani, Folorunsho Alakija, and Susan Wojcicki are a few of the other successful female entrepreneurs dominating the business world. Every female entrepreneur is doing well in their respective niche and has achieved the heights of success. 

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