BRIEF // Yahoo! adds six members to its board of directors, including a name that will speak to all thirtysomethings: Jessica Alba. The actress, already known for a successful entrepreneurial adventure, is taking her first steps in tech.
Purists discovered it in the series DarkAngel. But Jessica Alba, a famous 41-year-old American actress, is also an entrepreneur. In 2011, she created her own company, The Honest Company, which markets ecological products and clothing. A commercial success, since the company was estimated at 1.5 billion euros in 2016. And today it is an adventure in tech that awaits Jessica Alba, since the magazine variety tells us that she joins the board of directors of Yahoo!, a company acquired by Verizon Media in 2021 for 5 billion dollars. Five other people join the board, including Cynthia Marshall, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks basketball franchise, and Katie Stanton, founder and general partner of Moxxie Ventures, who was previously a senior executive at Twitter, Google, and Yahoo! .
Before Jessica Alba, other stars distinguished themselves in entrepreneurial activities and investments in the digital world. This is for example the case of Ashton Kutcher, who had played Steve Jobs in the cinema, and had participated in various adventures in Silicon Valley: Uber, Skype, Airbnb, Shazam… In the world of music, we think also in the acquisition of Tidal in 2015 for 56 million dollars, by Jay-Z and his musician friends including Alicia Keys, Chris Martin or Kanye West.