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Liverpool Echo
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Robbie Purves & Jamie Greer

Downfall and death of founder of $2.2b beauty brand The Ordinary

An entrepreneur behind a billion dollar beauty empire has revealed how her co-founder’s drug addiction nearly led to the downfall of her businesses.

Nicola Kilner, CEO of The Ordinary and DECIEM, was a business-management student at Nottingham Trent University. She detailed the highs and lows of her career on Steven Bartlett's podcast The Diary Of A CEO (DOAC).

As reported by Wales Online, she became one of Boots’ youngest buyers after a sponsored work programme she completed there during her university studies. A year after finishing her degree, she met Brandon Truaxe, an Iranian-Canadian cosmetic computer scientist.

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