Interview

October 11, 2024

Beauty Pie’s Marcia Kilgore on finding billion dollar ideas: ‘You have to be willing to try something crazy’

Finding novel ideas is about looking for gaps in the market, questioning everything and ultimately following your curiosity, says the 5x beauty entrepreneur

From a young age, it was always clear that Marcia Kilgore was going to become an entrepreneur — if anything, just to be her own boss.

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Marcia Kilgore (right) with senior reporter Miriam Partington at Sifted Summit 2024.
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the DACH region and the future of work, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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