She Started Nails Inc at 23 With £250K. Years Later She Sold It for £30M | Thea Green

What does it actually take to build a 30 million business and then sell it?In this episode of Femme & Fortune, Ayesha Ofori sits down with Thea Green MBE, founder of Nails Inc, to talk about the journey from starting a company at 23 with 250K to selling it to private equity in 2024.Thea was working as a fashion editor, earning 11K a year in London, when she spotted a gap no one else was seeing. What followed was not a fast rise. It was decades of building, scaling, nearly breaking, and figuring out how to make money in an industry that looked glamorous but ran on razor-thin margins.They talk about why the early years were so much harder than Thea expected, how she raised investment, the pressure that came with it, scaling into Sephora and major global retailers, building a business while raising a family, and what it was really like to finally sell.This is the version of the story founders rarely tell.Femme & Fortune is a podcast about how women really build wealth, the decisions, the trade-offs, and the conversations we are not having enough of.New episodes every week. Subscribe so you do not miss one.Key topics: building a business, female founders, wealth building, entrepreneurship UK, scaling a brand, founder journey, selling a business, work life balance, women in business