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-Nothing to lose. Like many entrepreneurs, Amber Venz Box founded her company LTK, last valued at $2 billion, by trying to fix a problem in her own life.
Twelve years ago, the then 23-year-old was working as a personal shopper in Dallas, Texas, earning commission on sales of boutique apparel. To market her services, she posted her styled outfits on her website, complete with product recommendations. But she soon learned that the strategy was essentially giving her services away for free. "I had cut myself out of my own business," Venz Box, LTK's cofounder and president, told editor-at-large Michal Lev-Ram at Fortune's MPW Next Gen on Tuesday.
