When Shizu Okusa determined to start out a brand new enterprise, she knew the place to seek out the very best steering. “I wished to reverse engineer all the things I did flawed in my final firm,” she says.
Raised on a farm in Vancouver by Japanese immigrants, she’d based a cold-pressed juice model known as JRINK after feeling burned out at Goldman Sachs. It had 9 retailers and offered in two Entire Meals shops. However it was arduous to make some huge cash. So in 2020, Okusa took all the teachings she realized and created Apothékary — an natural treatment enterprise that is now worthwhile, and drove roughly $25 million in income final 12 months. This is what Okusa noticed go flawed, and the way she made it proper.