Raised by Single Mothers
A mother’s sacrifice, a child’s empire.
10 profiles, published in one list. Every profile is fact-checked against its sources, and every source opens inside the magazine.
Ten profiles of builders raised by single mothers — a mother's sacrifice on one side of the ledger, a child's empire on the other.
The list features Byron Allen, Jan Koum, Leticia Snoddy and Lindsay Hancock. Each profile begins in the household that formed them — one parent, doing the work of two — before it turns to what the child built.
This is the most personal of the magazine's lists. It is also, its subjects would likely say, the most accurate about where empires actually start: at a kitchen table, watched over by someone who refused to let the story end there.
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