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Backed by Daymond John and Post Malone, this Afghan-born founder built a $150M brand. Her real mission: the women back home

(Credit: Photo courtesy Cymbiotika)

Durana Elmi says in the country where she was born, birds now have more rights than women.

The cofounder of Cymbiotika, the San Diego–based wellness brand behind the rip-and-sip supplement packets that have turned up in gym bags and handbags across the country, left Afghanistan as an infant and was raised in a traditional Afghan household in Southern California.

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