Mariam Naficy

Naficy was born to Iranian and Chinese parents who are graduates of Georgetown University and were stationed abroad throughout Africa and the Middle East.{{cite news |title=Fortune picks woman for business acumen |url=https://iran-times.com/fortune-picks-woman-for-business-acumen/ |access-date=18 February 2023 |publisher=Iran Times}} Her parent was a United Nations development economist, and she spent her childhood in six countries, including Egypt, Tanzania, and Iran.{{Citation|year=2019|title=A Dot-Com Era Survivor Is Back With Minted, A $700M Stationery Startup For The Instagram Generation|work=Forbes|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2019/01/23/a-dot-com-era-survivor-is-back-with-minted-a-700m-stationery-startup-for-the-instagram-generation/#38ac305046f8}} She earned a degree in political science from Williams College, and then proceeded to pursue her master's degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1998.{{cite news |last1=Feloni |first1=Richard |title=The 25 Most Successful Stanford Business School Graduates |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/famous-stanford-business-school-students-2014-9#after-graduating-in-98-mariam-naficy-founded-the-crowd-sourced-design-company-minted-she-sold-her-online-makeup-retailer-evecom-for-a-reported-110-million-in-2000-22 |access-date=18 February 2023 |publisher=Business Insider |date=9 September 2014}}

While in business school, Naficy published The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, & Securities Trading, which has sold 50,000 copies.

Naficy worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs early in her career.{{cite news |last1=Marino |first1=Jonathan |title=This Wall Street bank is minting startup founders |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-alumni-leading-startups-2015-11 |access-date=18 February 2023 |publisher=Business Insider |date=3 November 2015}} In 1998 at the age of 28, she co-founded Eve.com, which later sold for $110 million to Idealab in 2000. {{cite news |title=Minted: Mariam Naficy |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/12/06/785607378/minted-mariam-naficy |access-date=18 February 2023 |publisher=NPR |date=9 December 2019}}

She led project management at Movielink, a 5-studio consortium, including Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal that was one of the first downloadable movie services. {{Cite web |last=Bloom |first=David |date=2002-07-24 |title=Movielink adds to exec ranks |url=https://variety.com/2002/digital/people-news/movielink-adds-to-exec-ranks-1117870157/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

After that, she was Vice President and General Manager at The Body Shop, launching their first e-commerce business in 2004.{{cite news|work=San Francisco Chronicle|title=Mariam Naficy went from makeup to Minted.com|url=http://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Mariam-Naficy-went-from-makeup-to-Minted-com-3166110.php | first=Regan|last=Mcmahon|date=November 14, 2010}}

Naficy founded the online stationery store Minted.com in 2008.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/mariam-naficy-tech-startup-mintedcom-crowdsources-artwork|title=Mariam Naficy: Tech Startup Minted.com Crowdsources Artwork|website=Stanford Graduate School of Business}} It stalled at first, but grew to 400 employees by 2019.{{Cite news|url=https://mastersofscale.com/mariam-naficy-the-money-episode/|title=Mariam Naficy: The Money Episode {{!}} Masters of Scale podcast — WaitWhat|work=WaitWhat|access-date=2018-03-19|language=en-US}} {{Citation|year=2019|title=This Founder Almost Shut Down Her Design Business After Year 1. Now It Has 400 Employees and a 9-Figure Revenue |publisher=Inc.com|url=https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/minted-mariam-naficy-founders-project.html}} Raising $208 million in 2018, it was the largest funding transaction that year involving a startup led by a female founder.{{Citation|year=2019|title=Funding For Female Founders Stalled at 2.2% of VC Dollars in 2018|publisher=Fortune|url=http://fortune.com/2019/01/28/funding-female-founders-2018/}}

Naficy sits on the Board of Directors of Minted, Medium, Victoria's Secret, and Every Mother Counts. She is a Trustee of Williams College and a member of the Advisory Council of Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

• The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, and Securities Trading, Broadway Books, 1997, {{ISBN|9780767900409}}.{{cite book|author=Earl G. Graves, Ltd.|title=Black Enterprise|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_M14EAAAAMBAJ|date=June 1998|publisher=Earl G. Graves, Ltd.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_M14EAAAAMBAJ/page/n127 1]–|issn=0006-4165}}

Her husband, Michael Mader, also works at Minted. They have two children.{{Citation|title=Parents|date=9 May 2014 |publisher=Entrepreneur|url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233734}}

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