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Award-winning actress and founder of Pattern Beauty Tracee Ellis Ross didn’t see Black beauty being represented well in the market – so she built a company from scratch to fix that. In this episode, she shares entrepreneurial lessons with her longtime friend Samira Nasr, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar. Their conversation was recorded live on stage at the 2024 Masters of Scale Summit.

Chapters:
00:00 Introducing Tracee Ellis Ross & Samira Nasr
01:46 Why Tracee Ellis Ross launched Pattern Beauty
08:49 Centering Pattern Beauty around joy
11:22 Inside Tracee Ellis Ross & Samira Nasr’s friendship
17:27 The lesson Tracee's glad she didn’t know before starting Pattern

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