Tracee Ellis Ross talks Pattern Beauty, advocacy & joy, w/ Samira Nasr | Masters of Scale Summit '24

Award-winning actress and founder of Pattern Beauty Tracee Ellis Ross didn’t see Black beauty being represented well in the market – so she built a company from scratch to fix that. In this episode, she shares entrepreneurial lessons with her longtime friend Samira Nasr, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar. Their conversation was recorded live on stage at the 2024 Masters of Scale Summit.

Chapters:
00:00 Introducing Tracee Ellis Ross & Samira Nasr
01:46 Why Tracee Ellis Ross launched Pattern Beauty
08:49 Centering Pattern Beauty around joy
11:22 Inside Tracee Ellis Ross & Samira Nasr’s friendship
17:27 The lesson Tracee's glad she didn’t know before starting Pattern

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[parislampkins]

I could listen to Tracee talk for hours!

[hrhsophiathefirst]

She is living her life out loud, wish her all the joy in the world!

[biblianabovery]

This was so good to hear the history of PATTERN. I dabbled with Pattern...then I went all in and got the products from shampoo to style, and my curls have never popped like this! So moisturized and easy to style. Celebrate Black Beauty!

[bryantkelly]

This was fantastic informatio thank youn.

[EnzoPontrelli]

I love their friendship two thoughts on both Samira is from Montreal my parents sister brother & a family friend first moved to Canada from Italy & Venezuela in 1969, my dad in heaven was a season ticket holder for The Montreal Canadiens, i'm from NYC i was 6 years old when my family took me on vacation when we visited Montreal now she lives in New York my hometown & Editor-In-Chief of Harper's Bazaar, Tracee i first watched her in 1981 on Sesame Street's Episode 1578 now she's an entrepreneur & a beautiful funny joyful person i'm happy for their success & proud to support them.

[Dubaiwealth]

Shoutout Tracee Ellis Ross أخي Jupiter86 يحبها لقد أرسل لي هذا الفيديو 📹 ❤ تشاهد في دبي الإمارات العربية المتحدة 🇦🇪

[maximilianschmid]

"Vhenn'sz tha Jodie Denon ofspinnr premmierinh?"

[NekroBroly]

Whats your favorite inventions that you all invented?