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Claire Dawson @ KillerStartups 3 place · 04/22/2025 01:30 EDT

Woman turns a $1,000 investment into a booming business and is now on track to rake in over $50 million this year

Courtney Claghorn never planned on running a national beauty chain—it started with a simple gripe in 2008. Fresh out of college and living in Los Angeles, she realized spray tans were both expensive and shackled to UV‑bed salons. When she vented to her boyfriend, Sam Offit, he challenged her to turn that annoyance into an opening. “He was ...

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