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In her former career as a strategy consultant, Kat Dey traveled the world, coming home with story after story… about the food she ate. But when she couldn’t find the ingredients she needed to make all the unique dishes that she was telling her friends and family about, she says she “decided to start a subscription service that brought these foreign delicacies directly to people’s doors.” Five years later, almost 200k people have received Try The World  gourmet boxes full of items like pistachio cream spread from Italy (her personal addiction), and caramel candy from Japan. 

Conquering the world is certainly the goal for this Russian-born, self-described “serial entrepreneur.” With each project she takes on, she says she’s trying to find solutions to problems that she’s personally affected by. Case in point, her next project is launching a jewelry line called Poppy Angeloff with her sister, who is three inches taller. “All the women in my family are petite, so the catalyst behind our jewelry company is that we couldn’t find intricate jewelry to flatter our small hands,” Kat says. “And I can’t wait for people to watch this fairytale unfold.”