Of Note

More than 20 years ago, Toni Ko created a new niche in the beauty industry with NYX, a line of high-quality, low-cost cosmetics. After selling NYX to L’Oréal for a reported $500M—and taking a five-year break—she launched her new company, Bespoke Beauty Brands, which partners with beauty influencers to develop their own lines.

Spencer Rascoff is an entrepreneur and company leader who co-founded Zillow, Hotwire, and dot.LA, and who served as Zillow's CEO for a decade. Rascoff is the host of Office Hours, a podcast on dot.LA featuring candid conversations between prominent executives on leadership, diversity and inclusion, and startups. The Los Angeles–native is also an active angel investor in early stage tech companies, and before his consumer web career, he worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and in private equity at TPG Capital.

In just seven years, Ryan Hudson took a browser extension and created Honey, a shopping and rewards platform recently purchased by PayPal for $4B.