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13 Oct, 8 tweets, 4 min read

Announcing America's richest self-made women 2020: on.forbes.com/6013GNe6v

Despite her musical success, she's made the bulk of her fortune from Fenty Beauty, the makeup brand she co-owns with luxury goods group LVMH #SelfMadeWomen

She became CEO of online dating group Bumble (formerly MagicLab) in November 2019, after private equity firm Blackstone bought out its former owner, Russian billionaire Andrey Andreev, in a deal that valued the business at $3 billion #SelfMadeWomen

Donna Carpenter is the owner, chair and former co-CEO of Burton, the snowboarding gear and apparel giant she built with her late husband Jake Burton #SelfMadeWomen

Gwynne Shotwell is SpaceX's president and COO, and manages the operations of the commercial space exploration company founded by Elon Musk #SelfMadeWomen

Kelly Steckelberg (No. 78) has been chief financial officer of work-from-home staple Zoom Video Communications since 2017. Most of her fortune lies in Zoom stock options; Zoom shares have more than quintupled in value in the first 8 months of 2020 #SelfMadeWomen

Kris Jenner, the flight attendant-turned-"momager," is the mastermind behind her daughters' entrepreneurial endeavors #SelfMadeWomen

See who else made this year's #SelfMadeWomen list forbes.com/self-made-wome…

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