The Shopify Growth Show
From concept to $24M in 2 years 🤑 - The Shopify Growth Show (#1)
What if your hardest season became your biggest breakthrough?
Ming Zhao built a $24M skincare brand in just 2 years—while pregnant and going through Y Combinator. This isn’t just a startup story. It’s a story of pressure, clarity, and purpose colliding at once.
In this raw and revealing episode, Ming Zhao, CEO and co-founder of PROVEN Skincare, shares how she transformed corporate burnout into one of the fastest-growing beauty startups—scaling to $24 million in just 24 months. She opens up about building a data-driven business during one of the most demanding periods of her life, and how AI, science, and personal insight helped reshape the future of skincare.
Key Topics Covered:
- How AI and data are transforming skincare
- The Skin Genome Project explained
- Navigating Y Combinator while pregnant
- Building a business model rooted in science
- Living the “Love your job, live your life” mindset
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