Forbes on LinkedIn: These Are The Richest Self-Made Women Under 40 (2024)

She put Hollywood on hold a decade ago to raise a family with Ryan Gosling. Now the 50-year-old actress is reemerging as a cleaning-supplies entrepreneur, and dishes on why doing dishes is her happy place. “Cleaning for me and for my family, it’s not just cleaning. It’s an emotional bonding experience,” Mendes says of household chores. “When I found mindful meditation, I was like, this is my jam.”Read more: https://trib.al/x5Pfc2G

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Forbes is seeking individuals whose work in sustainability is setting new standards of innovation and ambition. Know a leader who fits this description? Nominate them for @Forbes first annual Sustainability Leaders list now through June 7. https://trib.al/O5Xtpjo

Founded by two sets of identical twins, Jeeter lit up the cannabis industry last year with $220 million in revenue, leaving the competition searching for a “Jeeter beater.”https://trib.al/ggN24Hq

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In August 2020, as the novel coronavirus was blazing across an unvaccinated United States, Don Ahern’s Las Vegas hotel hosted the event Evangelicals For Trump, despite previously being scolded by state authorities for staging a beauty pageant. Nevada fined Ahern $10,930 for violating the governor’s executive orders banning mass gatherings.Undeterred, Ahern hosted a Trump campaign rally the next month at a warehouse he owns in the nearby city of Henderson; the city’s officials promptly fined Ahern $3,000. “I believe that it is my patriotic duty to do what is right for our country, and what is right is supporting President Donald J. Trump,” a bespectacled, mild-mannered Ahern explained at a press conference after the rally.Few outside Nevada and the construction industry have heard of Don Ahern, who made his estimated $1 billion fortune renting out construction equipment like telehandlers and forklifts. Ahern, who is apparently “shy,” according to his longtime consultant George Harris, didn’t comment on his net worth or sit for an interview for this story.But Ahern’s embrace of MAGA politics and influence in a key swing state has raised his national profile.Keep reading: https://trib.al/AdtSgKS

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America’s #SelfMadeWomen List 2024 Self-Made Scores: From Hired Hands To Bootstrappers Among the 100 members of Forbes’ new list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, some were born into wealth and others into poverty. Most, it turns out, grew up middle-class or upper middle-class.As part of our analysis of how these inspiring entrepreneurs, executives and entertainers built companies or careers, Forbes did some digging and gave each of the list members a self-made score. The goal is to provide some context about where these women started out socio-economically and how many hurdles they had to overcome to get where they are. https://trib.al/m14pcHR

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Since performing in her last movie, 2014’s Lost River, Eva Mendes has become a mother, fashion designer, children’s book author and the co-owner of a successful home cleaning goods startup, Skura Style.After taking an ownership stake in 2022, Mendes has helped Skura—which was founded in 2017 by Linda Sawyer and Alison Matz—expand its marketing reach and has even dabbled in product design. Forbes estimates the business brought in $7 million in revenue last year and is on track for $20 million in 2024.“I started using it and I loved it, so I got in contact with the founders and I loved their story,” she says. Much like Mendes, Sawyer and Matz left behind thriving careers—Sawyer was the longtime North America CEO of Deutsch Advertising, while Matz was the publisher of magazines at Meredith and Condé Nast, including Brides—to become entrepreneurs.With her new ownership role, Mendes has become interes­ted in every aspect of the company. “I want to be on those investor calls, I want to talk about the boring stuff, like how high our box has to be in order to fit into a certain shelf. I’m in for all of it.”Keep reading: https://trib.al/ppCHUgi

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America’s Richest Women Celebrities #SelfMadeWomen It was a record-breaking year for the rich and famous on Forbes’ 2024 list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women: The 15 celebrities on the 100-person list are worth a combined $13.3 billion, up 23% from last year, and include a who’s who of pop stars, TV hosts and producers, from Beyonce and Madonna to Ellen DeGeneres, Judge Judy and Reese Witherspoon.Newcomer Katy Perry catapulted herself onto the list for the first time with a six-figure deal: Last fall the superstar sold her master recordings royalties and publishing rights to Carlyle-backed Litmus Music for a reported $225 million.

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Debuting in 2017, Uncle Nearest has tripled sales since 2021, and expects $100 million in revenue this year, with 20% estimated net margins. According to reports of spirits research firm IWSR data, that makes Uncle Nearest the fastest-growing Ameri­can whiskey brand in history and drives a business that Forbes conservatively estimates is worth $1.1 billion. https://trib.al/yoIqtI1 #SelfMadeWomen

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While one part of his firm was advising on asset sales, traders at Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital bought a hoard of Solana tokens at a steep discount from bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. Windfall profits are likely.Read more: https://trib.al/cJ6nesw

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A majority of Americans don’t think going into debt for a four-year college degree is worth it, according to a new study from Pew Research Center. Only 22% of 5,200 survey respondents said that college is worth the cost if a student has to take on debt, while another 47% said a four-year degree is worth it only if the student doesn’t have to take out loans. That leaves 29% of respondents who say college isn’t worth its cost, regardless. Even a majority of college graduates themselves are skeptical of the value of a degree today—only a third say college is worth the cost if loans are required.

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