Meet the first black woman to own a billion-dollar company

Business Daily by BBC

Oct 6, 202617:28Business

We meet Janice Bryant Howroyd, founder of ActOne Group. She arrived in Los Angeles with just $900 borrowed from her mother and went on to build a multi-billion-dollar business, becoming the first Black woman to own and r...

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