Today on episode 3 I talk to serial entrepreneur Sharmadean Reid CEO of Beautystack. Beautystack is a consumer and business facing beauty platform for professionals aiming to economically empower women and professionals in the beauty industry. Sharmadean is a veteran of the beauty and fashion industry with a career in high fashion, hip-hop magazines finishing her corporate career at Nike before going on to launch and scale a cult consumer product and business Wah Nails. Sharmadean has also been awarded an MBE for services to the industry.

In addition to hosting a popular column in the Guardian Sharmadean is founder of Future Girl Corporation which aims to empower the next generation of female entrepreneurs around the globe.

On today’s episode we talk about:

Sharmadean’s new venture Beautystack and her mission to economically women and the beauty industry in building an instagram for beauty

How Sharmadean brought her vision to life in working with venture capital investors, building an MVP and building a diverse team of engineers and business facing teams

We also talk about Sharmadean’s view on the value of a board of directors, the future of the beauty industry, her lessons learned in business and what diversity means to her in building a unique culture at Beautystack.

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