by Though she won’t be greatest identified for her enterprise acumen and entrepreneurial data, it goes with out saying that actuality star Kim Kardashian is aware of a factor or two about operating a profitable empire.
But not everyone seems to be bought on Kardashian being the one to dole out recommendation. The star confronted backlash on social media over the weekend for giving a speech at Harvard Business School.
Kardashian visited HBS in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Friday with Skims co-founder Jens Grede to speak to college students concerning the shapewear firm for almost two hours as part of a direct-to-consumer seminar.
I spoke At Harvard Business School yesterday for a category known as HBS Moving Beyond DTC. The class’s task was to study @skims, so my associate Jens and I spoke about our advertising and marketing, our challenges and our biggest wins. pic.twitter.com/42FiWDlmaj
— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) January 21, 2023
Though cameras did comply with her round campus, the seminar itself was not filmed.
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Many took to Twitter to criticize Harvard’s choice to ask the 42-year-old to talk at the extremely respected establishment.
“I’d hate to pay that Harvard tuition $$$$ to solely get her as a speaker,” one person bluntly wrote. “Do Better, Harvard.”
Not everybody was anti-Kardashian, although. Many pointed to the success of her a number of enterprise endeavors as grounds for credibility.
“I do not get what the hate is about. A bunch of jealous folks,” one person pointed out. “The actuality is, she wasn’t born extremely rich. She created an organization, leveraged her skills, and constructed a model.”
Kardashian’s Skims model doubled in valuation final 12 months after a $240 million financing spherical led by hedge fund Lone Pine Capital and funding agency D1 Capital Partners.
The firm is presently estimated to be value round $3.2 billion.
Though Kardashian has fairly a formidable enterprise portfolio, the majority of her non-endorsement-deal earnings come from majority fairness stakes in Skims and her magnificence line, KKW Beauty, by which she sold a 20% stake for $200 million in 2020.
Kardashian’s internet value is estimated to be $1.4 billion.
