From billion-dollar brand to blank slate: Bobbi Brown’s comeback
Masters of Scale
- Published
- November 6, 2025
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- 35:30
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- Last updated
- Jun 24, 2026
Discusses She built her first company, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, into a billion-dollar brand. But when things sou…
Summary
She built her first company, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, into a billion-dollar brand. But when things soured between her and her parent company, Estée Lauder, she had a choice: retire from the industry, or reinvent herself with a new brand. Brown joins host Jeff Berman to reveal the lessons she learned from scaling – and leaving – her first company. She’s leve…
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She built her first company, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, into a billion-dollar brand. But when things soured between her and her parent company, Estée Lauder, she had a choice: retire from the industry, or reinvent herself with a new brand. Brown joins host Jeff Berman to reveal the lessons she learned from scaling – and leaving – her first company. She’s leveraging those decades of insights now in her new venture: Jones Road Beauty. Still Bobbi: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Still-Bobbi/Bob