Jessica Alba | Eco-Friendly Company

Jessica Alba once had a problem finding products that are child friendly. Just like any other mom, she wants the best for her children. To calm the worries of other parents like her, she launched The Honest Company in 2012, which sells environmentally friendly products for babies. Building the company was not easy for Alba and required an admirable degree of perseverance. She dealt with rejections from possible investors at first, but she didn’t stop there. She eventually won over her husband’s friend, Brian Lee, and his wife, then formed a real-life Fantastic 4 with the inclusion of Sean Kane, Lee’s friend, as the president and co-founder.

With just 17 products such as wipes and diapers, the company reached $10 million in sales. The company has only continued to thrive since then. In December 2015, Vanity Fair disclosed that The Honest Company ran north of $150 million in sales, while the market value of the business peaked at $1.7 billion in the summer of the same year.