Kriegsman, Ali: - Ali Kriegsman is a founder, marketing consultant and author based in New York City who is unhealthily obsessed with ambition and the way women contort themselves to get ahead. Her first company sold for eight figures in 2022 and she has been consulting for other businesses ever since. Her first book, How to Build a Goddamn Empire, was published to acclaim by Abrams in 2021 and follows her experience launching, pivoting, and scaling the technology company she started at only twenty-four years old. A recipient of "Forbes 30 Under 30" and named one of Fast Company's "Most Creative People in Business," Ali's work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Beauty Independent, Business of Fashion, and more. You can read her weekly writing via her Substack called "New Motives" and follow her on Instagram: @alikriegs or on Tik Tok: @ohmygoodnezz_.