From Stay-At-Home Mom To Multimillion Dollar Businesswoman: Meet Drybar's Founder, Ali Webb

Alli Webb is an business owner and writer, most known for Drybar- a chain of hair salons that specialize in blowouts. Webb and her brother both worked for Nicole Miller before striking out on their own in 2010. Webb, her brother, and then husband cofounded Drybar. As of 2019, there are over 125 locations. In 2016 Ali released her book, The Drybar Guide To Good Hair For All which became a New York Times bestseller. Webb just published The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself with Harper Horizon in November 2023.

In recent years, she has guest starred on Shark Tank, started a podcast called “Raising the Bar with Landau, and been included in Fortune's '40 Under 40' list and Fast Company's'100 Most Creative People in Business' list in 2013.

Alli Webb, the founder of Drybar, joins "Forbes New Money" to reflect on her journey from being a college dropout and stay-at-home mom to selling her company, Drybar, for $255 million.

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