Juliette Brindak

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Juliette Brindak Blake
Born
Juliette Rosalie Brindak [1]

1989
New York, New York, USA
Education Greenwich High School
Washington University
Occupation(s)Co-Founder & CEO of Miss O and Friends, LLC [2]

Juliette Brindak Blake is an American businesswoman and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the all-girl tween and teen social networking site, Miss O & Friends. [3] [4]

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Early life

Juliette Brindak was born in New York City, and was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut by Paul and Hermine Brindak. She is one of two children. [5]

Life and career

Miss O & Friends

Brindak runs Miss O & Friends, which she began as a hobby since 2005 when she was 16 years old. [6] [7] The company was inspired by drawings which Brindak did when she was ten. [8] Miss O and Friends is a safe socialization site for tween and young teen girls that aims to empower and help build self-esteem. The website is COPPA compliant safe. The content is created by the user community making it totally by girls, for girls. In 2011, Miss O and Friends was ranked the #3 girls-only website, according to Alexa data. [9]

As of 2012, the website's value was $15 million, according to Procter & Gamble which was an early investor. [8] The company is based in Old Greenwich, Connecticut and has employees across the United States and Canada. [6] Inc. Magazine named Miss O and Friend “Coolest College Start Ups. [10]

In 2012, Brindak was a speaker at TEDx Bay Area. [10] The same year, she launched Moms with Girls. [11]

In 2017, she became an executive producer of a Youtube Premium original television series, Hyperlinked, based on her story (which includes a namesake character based on her). [12]

Bibliography

Miss O & Friends: Write On! The Miss O & Friends Collection of Rockin' Fiction, Watson-Guptill, 2006, a compilation of stories submitted by users of the site. [13] [8]

Personal life

On August 6, 2016 she married Christian Joseph Blake of Greenwich, Connecticut. [1]

Brindak received her BA in anthropology and public health at Washington University in St. Louis. [9]

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References

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  6. 1 2 Lagorio-Chafkin, Christine (2011-03-01). "America's Coolest College Start-Ups of 2011". Inc. Magazine . Retrieved November 14, 2013.
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  9. 1 2 Lagorio-Chafkin, Christine (2011-03-01). "An Online Community for Tweens". Inc.com. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  10. 1 2 "Juliette Brindak Blake, Official Member of Young Entrepreneur Council". Young Entrepreneur Council. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  11. ↑ "How a Teenager Turned Doodles into a Million-Dollar Tween Website". The Story Exchange. 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  12. ↑ Webster, Emma Sarran (2017-05-31). "How a 16-Year-Old Girl Started a Multimillion Dollar Social Network". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  13. ↑ Write on! The Miss O & friends collection of rockin' fiction. Brindak, Hermine. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications. 2006. ISBN   0823029409. OCLC   70791179.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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