Annie Wang (entrepreneur)

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Annie Wang (born January 9, 1989) is co-founder, Chief Product Officer, and creative director of Her Campus, an online magazine geared towards college women. [1]

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Her Campus

Wang, along with Stephanie Kaplan Lewis and Windsor Hanger Western, is the co-founder of Her Campus, an online magazine for college women. The three women proposed a business plan in March 2009 and won the Harvard Student Agencies Investment Award in the i3 Innovation Challenge. [2] Her Campus was launched in September 2009. [2]

Awards and recognition

Along with Kaplan Lewis and Hanger Western, Wang was named to Inc. magazine's "30 Under 30 Coolest Young Entrepreneurs" for 2010, [3] Glamour's "20 Amazing Young Women", [4] and The Boston Globe's "25 Most Stylish Bostonians" for 2010. [5] Wang, Kaplan Lewis and Hanger Western were named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017 as Her Campus Media. [6]

Personal life

Wang married Kenneth Fan in 2014. [7]

Notes

  1. "| Her Campus". Her Campus. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  2. 1 2 "Young Entrepreneurs: A Conversation With Stephanie Kaplan" . Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  3. "Stephanie Kaplan, Windsor Hanger, and Annie Wang, Founders of Her Campus". Inc.com. 2010-07-19. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  4. Kaplan, Stephanie (2010-11-24). "Glamour's 20 Amazing Young Women Who Are Already Changing the World". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  5. "25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010". Boston.com. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  6. "Her Campus Media". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  7. "Annie Wang and Kenneth Fan". The New York Times. 2014-06-15. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-03-27.

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