Karissa Bodnar played on her customers’ desire to belong to something bigger than … well, beauty. By Sheila Yasmin Marikar On a recent Monday, Karissa Bodnar, the 34-year-old founder and chief ...

Glossier, a New York-based startup that sells a simple, highly curated line of beauty products, is taking $8.4 million in venture funding to pursue a tried-and-true strategy that many other e-commerce ...

The company has had some controversies. A plaintiff sued Thrive in 2018, alleging that it was not donating to charities in the way that it claimed. The lawsuit resulted in a “stipulated” dismissal.