This document summarizes 10 of the most successful woman entrepreneurs of the decade. It discusses their businesses and leadership roles, including Susan Wojcicki of YouTube, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, Mary Barra of General Motors, Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo, Tory Burch of her fashion brand, Beyoncé in the entertainment industry, Oprah Winfrey in media, Arianna Huffington co-founding the Huffington Post, Zhang Xin leading the real estate firm SOHO China, and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw founding the biopharma company Biocon. These entrepreneurs have led highly successful companies in various industries including technology, business, entertainment, media

1. The 10 Most Successful Woman
Entrepreneurs of the Decade
Debrah Lee Charatan

2. Women currently occupy 22 CEO
positions at S&P 500 companies
and female owned businesses
account for $2.5 trillion in sales.

3. Businesses led by women are
some of the top performing
organizations at a global level and
here are ten individuals who
contribute to that monumental
success.

4. Business and Technology

5. Susan Wojcicki
She spearheaded Google’s
YouTube acquisition and
she’s helped the growth of
the video platform that
brings in $4 billion in
revenue.
CEO of YouTube

6. Sheryl Sandberg
Sandberg’s contribution to
the technology space has
gone unmeasured. Her
vision of Facebook
becoming a pioneer in the
digital advertising sector
came to fruition behind her
hard work.
COO of Facebook

7. Mary Barra
In her second year as the
head of the nation’s largest
auto-maker, Barra has led
the $156-billion-in-sales
company out from behind
the dark cloud of their 2014
ignition-switch recall.
CEO of General Motors

8. Indra Nooyi
Nooyi is having the
definition of a successful
decade as she’s in her ninth
year atop the $66.6 billion
PepsiCo. She lead the
company to see an
impressive 4% organic
revenue growth in 2014.
CEO and Chairman, PepsiCo

9. Tory Burch
Since its launch in 2004, the
Tory Burch brand has
grown to 125 free-standing
stores and their line is sold
in 3,000 department and
specialty stores.
CEO of Tory Burch

10. Entertainment and Media

11. Beyoncé
Beyonce lead the women’s
singing group Destiny’s
Child in the mid-1990s.
She’s grown to be a
massively supported solo
artist and in 2014 she was
named #1 on Forbes’
celebrity list.
Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer and Actress.

12. Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey continues to
make huge leaps with the
media empire she’s built
which has now ventured
into the film production
industry.
Media Proprietor, Producer and Talk Show Host

13. Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
launched the Huffington
Post in 2005 and later sold
the digital publication to
AOL in 2011. As, editor-in-
chief, she hopes to expand
the readership.
Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post.

14. Real Estate and Healthcare

15. Zhang Xin
SOHO China is a prominent
real estate development firm
in China that went public in
2007. Xin has lead SOHO
China towards double-digit
growth and profits in her
time with the firm.
Co-Founder of SOHO China

16. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
She began Biocon, an Indian
biopharma company, out of
her garage. Biocon became
only the second Indian
company to reach $1 billion
on its first trading day when
they went public in 2004.
Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon Limited

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