Company · Retail · Media · founded 1977
HSN
American home shopping television network founded by Lowell Paxson and Roy Speer. Liberty Interactive acquired it in 2017, and it is now co-owned with QVC.
Of the 1 person here linked to HSN, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at HSN
Joined by acquisition Past
Role
Presenter and inventor; her company was sold to HSN's parent USA Networks in 1999, 1999–2018
Also at
Source
· high confidence. HSN's press release of December 20, 2018 (opened 2026-10-18) announced she was leaving after nearly two decades with the company; Wikipedia says she was president of Ingenious Designs and appeared on HSN until her departure in late 2018. Biography.com says she stayed on as the company's president after the 1999 sale. She had appeared on HSN before the sale, so 'from' is keyed to the sale year, not her first appearance.
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Joy Mangano
Inventor and founder, Ingenious Designs LLC; creator of the Miracle Mop and Huggable Hangers
working-class · outsider · college degree