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The Role Change

for help for her San Antonio–based, kid-friendly sunscreen company, Supergoop. Being open to ideas, though, she met with lots of people. “I just took all those meetings. Investors wanted to get to know us. We were not obviously raising capital in a formal round at the time,” she says. One of those meetings was with John

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