But at the beginning of building her business, despite her fame, Alba admits it wasn’t easy.
“I just felt so alone on this journey,” Alba says on the CNN podcast, “Boss Files with Poppy Harlow.”
Alba admitted it was difficult to assert herself. “It’s tough when you’re the only woman in the room, in the board room,” Alba says.
In the beginning, she was one of three co-founders, who were all men, she explains. She says there was a difference in priorities.
“It’s not that they didn’t want to [add women to the board],” Alba tells Harlow. “When you’re thinking month to month about your financial goals, and that’s more important than building a long-term vision and strategy, it’s just a different mentality on how to build something.”
She adds that her husband, Cash Warren gave her good advice when he reminded her of the importance of listening and learning, but Alba says, “there’s also a point where you’ve got to put your foot down.”
- Jessica Alba felt ‘so alone’ in the early days of her company, CNBC.com, February 6, 2018.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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