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How I Spun a Horrible Summer Job Experience Into a Lucrative Niche Outsourcing Business
Horatio, No. 8
New York City
Jose Herrera, co-founder and CEO
Two-year revenue growth: 1,960%
Jose Herrera, 34, had always wanted to be an entrepreneur, but was afraid of giving up his perfectly sweet career in investment banking. When he entered Columbia Business School in 2017, he was, in fact, going for his MBA to boost his standing back at Morgan Stanley. Instead, he wound up wrangling classmates Alex Ross, 33, and Jared Karson, 31, into becoming seed investors with him in a direct-to-consumer, ecofriendly cleaning company
