Female Founders are the Future with Julie Wainwright (2024)

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What happened to Julie Wainwright? ›

Julie Wainwright was the CEO of dotcom crash casualty Pets.com, shutting it down in 2000. In 2011, she founded online consignment store The RealReal when she was 53 years old. She took it public in 2019 and left in 2022. In mid-2023, she debuted a new startup, the personalized nutrition company Ahara.

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SAN FRANCISCO , June 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The RealReal (the “Company” or “The RealReal”) (Nasdaq: REAL)—the world's largest online marketplace for authenticated, resale luxury goods—today announced that after 11 years of leadership, its Founder Julie Wainwright has decided to step down from her role as Chief ...

The RealReal was founded in 2011 by Julie Wainwright, an e-commerce entrepreneur.

There is enough data to show that female entrepreneurs outperform their male counterparts. Even though men have a significant advantage in raising funds, companies founded or co-founded by women do better along several dimensions than companies started by men.

Plenty of women business owners insist that women entrepreneurs should call themselves anything they want. Many prefer to be called, simply, entrepreneur, while others suggest "fempreneur," woman entrepreneur, female business owner, businesswoman, or female founder.

Women accounted for just 13.2% of all startup founders in 2023. This founder gender gap was larger in some sectors than others. Over the past several years, men have outnumbered women among the population of new startup founders by a ratio of nearly six to one. In 2023, that disparity got even worse.

After filming The Real World and spending time traveling around the world, Stoffer settled in Los Angeles, and subsequently moved to Huntington Beach, California. She learned to play the drums and played music with her bandmates.

Bishop retired from politics on 11 April 2019, before the impending federal election. On 1 January 2020 Bishop commenced her term as chancellor of the Australian National University. She is the first woman to be in this position. In April 2024 Bishop was appointed United Nations special envoy for Myanmar.

After a 10-year battle with ovarian cancer, she died of complications from the disease in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 62, on October 1, 2003.

What happened to General Jonathan Wainwright? ›

In civilian life, he served on several corporate boards of directors and became a Freemason. He died of a stroke on September 2, 1953, fittingly the eighth anniversary of the surrender ceremonies in Tokyo Bay. He was 64.