Founder & CEO, The Newsette, Co-Founder, Wondermind, and Board Member, Forbes
Daniella Pierson: Biography at a Glance
- Daniella Pierson is the Latina founder / CEO of The Newsette Media Group as well as the co-founder of Wondermind, a mental fitness company she started with Selena Gomez and Mandy Teefey.
- Forbes reported her as one of the World’s Youngest Wealthiest Self-Made BIPOC Women.
- This success has enabled her to invest in BIPOC brands she believes in and be a part of funds like Serena Ventures.
- Daniella is very open about having ADHD, OCD, and Depression and is passionate about showing the world that you can achieve success at any age, even without millions of VC dollars, while struggling with learning disabilities and mental health disorders.
- Daniella joined Forbes’ board of directors consisting of next-generation media, tech, and AI industry leaders who are championing capitalism through business-for-good and giving back.
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Daniella Pierson is the Latina founder / CEO of The Newsette Media Group, which was valued at $200M in 2022. She is also a co-founder of Wondermind, a mental fitness company she started with Selena Gomez and Mandy Teefey. Forbes reported her as, one of the World’s Youngest Wealthiest Self-Made BIPOC Women.
She started her first company, The Newsette, as a sophomore in college, and despite not having any VC funding, seven years later The Newsette closed 2021 with $40M in sales and 8 figures of profit. The Newsette Media Group was also recently listed as #16 out of 5,000 on Inc.’s list of the Most Successful Companies in America with 16,500% growth in 3 years. This success has enabled her to invest in BIPOC brands she believes in and be a part of funds like Serena Ventures.
Daniella is very open about having ADHD, OCD, and depression, and is passionate about showing the world that you can achieve success at any age, even without millions of VC dollars, while struggling with learning disabilities and mental health disorders.
She has been on the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine, and profiled in Forbes, Business Insider, USA Today, CNBC, and beyond. She also achieved the Forbes 30 Under 30 list at age 24. She has also spoken at Stanford, Forbes, Fortune, Marie Claire, and Harvard.
Additionally, she has been the star of campaigns with BMW, Aduemars Piguet (alongside her friend Serena Williams), Maybelline, and J.P. Morgan.
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Becoming Invaluable & Indispensable in Business
Daniella Pierson did not have a picture-perfect resume for the business world – bad school grades, ADHD, OCD, no fancy pedigree, and zero VC financing, on top of being a Latina woman (when only .2% of funding is allocated to BIPOC women yearly!). Despite all of that, she managed to become “The World’s Youngest Wealthiest Self-Made Diverse Woman” according to Forbes and acquired a net worth of $220 Million at only 27 years old.
In this conversation, Daniella provides the perfect balance of inspiration and unparalleled insight into business as she shares her unconventional path to success in the male-dominated business world. In her witty and candid style, Daniella discusses how she used value to convince powerful peers to open doors that changed her life, her secret to making any person invaluable in their job, what Gen Z and Millennials are looking for both in a job culture and as consumers, and how to stand out from the crowd and achieve every goal despite setbacks.
