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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michael Stausholm, founder and CEO of SproutWorld. It has been edited for length and clarity.Back in 2013, I saw a Kickstarter campaign for a plantable pencil. Three young students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had invented the pencil in…

Bobbi Brown built a billion-dollar beauty brand only to find herself feeling pushed out of it in 2016.Though she is one of the beauty industry’s most influential founders, she coped after exiting Estée Lauder in the same way many would after leaving a job.”My neighbors came over and I drank…