Company · Beauty & Cosmetics
Poro Company
Hair-care business of Annie Turnbo Malone in St. Louis, selling through trained agents; Madam C. J. Walker sold for it on commission around 1904. Malone opened Poro College there in 1918.
Of the 1 person here linked to Poro Company, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
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1 person at Poro Company
Employee Past
Role
Commission sales agent, 1904
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia dates this to around the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and says she kept selling for Annie Malone after moving to Denver in 1905; no end year is given.
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Madam C.J. Walker
Founder, Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company
formerly-enslaved poverty · outsider · no college