朱爾斯?皮耶里

? 公司：The Grommet公司

? 年齡：53歲

皮耶里在大型消費(fèi)類產(chǎn)品公司工作過多年，如Stride Rite和科迪斯（Keds）等,。所以,，這種夫妻店在推出新產(chǎn)品時(shí)所遇到的困難令皮耶里感到失望。她解釋道：“越創(chuàng)新的產(chǎn)品,，因?yàn)榕c主流和‘已知’相悖,，因而越難銷售?！币虼?，她在五年前成立了The Grommet，這個(gè)信息分享平臺(tái)會(huì)將消費(fèi)者與發(fā)明者的故事和產(chǎn)品聯(lián)系起來。皮耶里的公司幫助發(fā)布的產(chǎn)品包括自制碳酸飲料機(jī)Sodastream和智能腕帶Fitbit,。她一直把惠普公司（HP）CEO梅格?惠特曼作為自己的導(dǎo)師,，并在哈佛商學(xué)院（Harvard Business School）擔(dān)任入駐企業(yè)家。

Jules Pieri

? Company: The Grommet

? Age: 53

After years working with large consumer product companies like Stride Rite and Keds, Pieri grew frustrated with the difficulty mom-and-pop shops had launching new products. "The more innovative a product—as opposed to mainstream and "known"—the harder it was to get distribution," she explains. In response, she launched The Grommet, a discovery platform that connects customers with inventors' stories and their products, five years ago. Pieri, whose company helped launch products including SodaStream and Fitbit, counts HP CEO Meg Whitman as a mentor and has a side-gig as an entrepreneur in residence at Harvard Business School.