Mariam Naficy

Mariam Naficy is an American entrepreneur who is founder and CEO of Minted, an online design marketplace that has products in 70 million homes.[1] In 1998, Naficy co-founded Eve.com, the first major online retailer of cosmetics.[2]

Life

Naficy is a graduate of Williams College and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Naficy worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs early in her career.

While in business school, Naficy published "The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, & Securities Trading," which has sold 50,000 copies.[2]

She started Eve.com in 1998, at the age of 28, along with co-founder Varsha Rao. In 2000, Eve.com was sold for a reported $110 million to Idealab, then four months later all employees were fired and operations ceased on October 21, 2000. Subsequently, certain assets including Eve.com's customer list and website name were sold to Sephora.[3][4][5]

Naficy then founded Minted.com, an online stationery store, in 2008. She would eventually raise $89 million in venture funding, and Minted became a nine-figure revenue company with 350 employees.[6]

Naficy was born to Iranian and Chinese parents who are graduates of Georgetown University, and were stationed abroad throughout Africa and the Mideast. She lives in San Francisco, California with her husband and two children.

Works

  • The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, and Securities Trading, Broadway Books, 1997, ISBN 9780767900409.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Mariam Naficy: The Money Episode". Masters of Scale.
  2. 1 2 Mcmahon, Regan (November 14, 2010). "Mariam Naficy went from makeup to Minted.com". San Francisco Chronicle.
  3. ↑ "Makeup Web Sites Not Pretty / Eve.com is latest to go out of business".
  4. ↑ Miles, Stephanie (November 7, 2000). "Sephora.com Buys Assets Of Defunct E-Tailer Eve.com" – via www.wsj.com.
  5. ↑ "In 2000, 28-Year-Old Mariam Naficy Sold Her Startup For $110 Million — Will History Repeat Itself?". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2013-05-08.
  6. ↑ "Mariam Naficy: The Money Episode | Masters of Scale podcast — WaitWhat". WaitWhat. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  7. ↑ Earl G. Graves, Ltd. (June 1998). Black Enterprise. Earl G. Graves, Ltd. pp. 1–. ISSN 0006-4165.


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