Super Successful Entrepreneurs With No Degrees


Ruth Handler – Creator of Barbie

Handler was an American businesswoman who is remembered for making the famous Barbie Doll. She also became the president of toy company Mattel. Handler had noted that her daughter Barbara who was a pre-teen played with her dolls giving them adult roles. So she got an idea to create Barbie doll with an adult body. Her husband Elliot Handler and his partner Harold "Matt" Matson, who founded Mattel initially, thought that this doll wouldn’t sell.

 

Coco Chanel – Fashion Designer

Chanel was the founder of the ‘Chanel’ brand. She was the only fashion designer to be named on Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century. Living a nomadic life in her childhood, she never attended school. She learned the art of sewing and worked as seamstress. Apart from that she sang in a cabaret, where she got the name ‘Coco’. She then founded Chanel which had many of her own inventions.