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	Podcast:		How I Built This with Guy Raz
	Episode:		ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:52:52
	Publish Date:		2018-12-02 23:01:31
	Description:		In the late 1970s Janice Bryant Howroyd moved to Los Angeles and began temping as a secretary. She soon realized there were many other young people in situations similar to hers. So with $1,500 in her pocket, Janice rented an office in Beverly Hills and created the staffing company ACT-1. Today, ActOne Group is an international workforce management company, making Janice Bryant Howroyd the first African-American woman to own a billion-dollar business. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how Ofer and Helene Webman developed a device that can change the way an acoustic guitar sounds without bulky pedals and amps.
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