'Go Get Your Elephant'

摘要

For Holly Thaggard, the moment of truth arrived in 2010 when she was celebrating Thanksgiving with her family. The business she'd started four years earlier to sell sunscreen to schools was going nowhere. Desperate, Thaggard decided she needed $25,000 to pitch her product at a trade show in New York, an expensive gamble for a company with just $45,000 in annual sales. "It was tears," Thaggard recalls. "Ultimately, my dad left me a check on the counter and said, 'Go get your elephant, honey".