| 词条 | Miki Agrawal |
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| name = Miki Agrawl | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|1|26}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | years_active = 2011–present | spouse = | children = | residence = Brooklyn, New York }} Miki Agrawal (born January 26, 1979) is a Canadian born entrepreneur, with her most notable business being THINX. In 2011, Miki, her sister Radha, and Antonia Saint Dunbar started THINX, a company focused around women’s underwear specifically built to be worn during a woman’s menstrual cycle. Miki held the positions of CEO, CMO, and CCO. Miki stepped down as CEO on March 26, 2017. Early lifeMiki was born in Montreal, Canada on January 26, 1979. Her ancestry include Japanese (mother) and Indian (father). Miki worked in many different fields before landing at THINX. She worked as an investment banker from July 2001 to May 2003 after getting her degree from Cornell University. After the September 11th attacks, she realized that she wanted to do three things during her life: Play a sport professionally, work on a film, and start a business. After, Miki was picked up by the New York Magic, a semi-professional women’s soccer team based out of New York, New York. Miki tore her ACL in her first game, and shortly after recovering from that injury, she injured her other ACL. In an interview with Forbes magazine, she said that her thought after the second injury was,"Ok universe, I get it, this is not my calling". After the end of her soccer career, Miki worked as a freelance production manager with some of her former clients being Victoria’s Secret, Justin Timberlake, and Beyonce. Her film career ended in 2005 when she opened her restaurant "WILD". WILD is a farm-to-table pizzeria. There are currently three locations of WILD, one in Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York, another in West Village, New York, and another in Park Slope Brooklyn, New York.[1][2] THINXIn 2011, Miki, her twin sister Radha, and their friend Antonia Saint Dunbar founded the company THINX, which sells women’s underwear made with anti-microbial, moisture-wicking, absorbent, and leak resistant materials equivalent to more traditional feminine hygiene products. THINX originally came about because of Miki’s frustration with accidents and taboos associated with women’s hygiene, and her belief that the industry of feminine hygiene hasn’t been updated in centuries. One of the major inspirations to start the company was during the 2014 World Cup, when she met a young girl who had to miss school because of the lack of feminine hygiene products.[1][2] Maternity Leave PolicyTHINX's initial maternity leave policy was 5 weeks of full pay and 2 weeks of half pay. This was criticized for not being in line with the company’s feminist values. Miki's response to this was that "the company did not have any pregnant people at the time their "policy" was formed." She said that "when you are a start-up, you are building the plane as you fly it, so only once someone got pregnant, did we do something about it. You can't expect startups to have everything in place from the get go but we learned from this and we will do our best to be more conscious of these things moving forward." Once she and two of her employees got pregnant, they started focusing on the policy. [3] TUSHYAfter leaving THINX, Miki focused on TUSHY. TUSHY is a bidet that can quickly attach to any toilet. Unlike the french bidet that sits next to a toilet, or a Japanese bidet, TUSHY clips onto any standard American toilet and requires no plumbing or electrical to install. Similar to the THINX Foundation, TUSHY gives one family access to clean community toilets with every purchase of a Tushy.[1] Advocates of bidets say that they reduce bathroom time, mess, and waste, mainly by cutting down on toilet-paper use. (The average American uses fifty-seven sheets a day; by recent estimates, bidets could save some fifteen million trees annually.) An eighteenth-century invention, bidets remain a common fixture in Southern Europe, India, and other parts of Asia. In Italy, the government mandates bidet ownership. Japan is, of course, known for its life-changing magical toilet systems.[4] DO COOL SH*TMiki wrote her first book [https://www.mikiagrawal.com/books-2 DO COOL SH*T]:"Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business and Live Happily Ever After". It came out in August of 2013 and hit #1 Best-Seller on Amazon in Entrepreneurship. DO COOL SH*T is "an inspiring, irreverent step-by-step lowdown for those seeking to blaze their own path to entrepreneurship and find fulfillment and happiness through bold action and big ideas."[5] DISRUPT-HERMiki wrote her second book [https://www.disrupther.co/ DISRUPT-HER],"A Manifesto For the Modern Woman". "In order to navigate the complicated—at times maddening—struggles of contemporary femininity, we need an unabashed manifesto for the modern woman that inspires us to move past outrage and take positive steps on the personal, professional, and societal levels." It came out on Jan 29, 2019 and hit #1 Best Seller on Amazon in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital and sold over 10,000 copies in its first two weeks. DISRUPT-HER "issues a rallying cry for women to radically question the status quo."[6] John Mackey, Founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market said "An important book written at an important time, DISRUPT-HER forces us to question all that is not serving us in our own life and in the greater society.” References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|last1=Bellafante|first1=Ginia|title=The Bohemian Capitalist|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/nyregion/thinx-underwear-underground.html|website=NY Times|publisher=NY Times|accessdate=18 November 2017}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Agrawal, Miki}}2. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Bruner|first1=Raisa|last2=Jacobs|first2=Sarah|title=Go inside the Brooklyn home of entrepreneur Miki Agrawal, the ex-investment banker with a novel idea for women's underwear|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/at-home-with-miki-agrawal-entrepreneur-2016-3/|website=Business Insider|publisher=Business Insider|accessdate=18 November 2017}} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=Tokumitsu|first1=Miya|title=What a Start-Up’s Scandal Says About Your Workplace|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/opinion/thinx-what-a-startups-scandal-says-about-your-workplace.html|website=NY Times|publisher=NY TImes|accessdate=20 November 2017}} 4. ^https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/miki-agrawal-wants-america-to-embrace-the-bidet 5. ^https://www.mikiagrawal.com/books-2 6. ^https://wanderlust.com/journal/disrupther-feminism-miki-agrawal/ 7 : 1979 births|Living people|Businesspeople from Montreal|Canadian women in business|Canadian people of Indian descent|Canadian people of Japanese descent|Canadian expatriates in the United States |
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