Started a $200 million company... at 63.
In a decades-long career of energetically flogging lipsticks and balms, Ms. Brown, 68, earned fame and the trust of millions of customers with a be-as-you-are approach that, at its inception in the early 1990s, upended the artificial beauty standards of the day.
She made her fortune by selling her first brand, Bobbi Brown Essentials, to Estée Lauder, only to find that life in a giant corporation wasn’t for her. But the book stops short of being a tell-all.
“Believe me, I was strategic with my words,” she said.
Ms. Brown finally left Estée Lauder in 2016. Because of a noncompete agreement, she was supposed to stay away from the cosmetics business until 2020. Once she was free, she started a new beauty company, Jones Road.
At 63.
“The company is poised to generate $200 million in revenue later this year,” Mr. Plofker said, with 10 stand-alone stores from Montclair to Madison Avenue, from Chicago to Palm Beach.
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