The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Sabrina Tan, founder and chief executive of skincare brand Skin Inc.
For Sabrina Tan, leaving a tech career to break into the skincare industry brought plenty of challenges - including working with women.
A female dynamic in the workplace was new to Sabrina, who grew up in Singapore with three brothers, and worked at male-dominated firms such as IBM, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard after leaving university.
"I was used to being one of the few women on the team," she says.
Suddenly Sabrina was surrounded by many other females. She'd noticed that some were shy about sharing their ideas, and many felt unprepared, when, in fact, they were often over-qualified for the job.
"It was a huge change for me to move into beauty," she says.
She took that step just over a decade ago with the launch of Skin Inc, a Singapore-based brand now sold in the US, UK, and across Asia, that rakes in tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year.
The 45-year old credits her success to using a "tech mindset"- and drawing inspiration from her idol, the late Steve Jobs - to build a beauty company.
"I wanted to create the Apple of skincare."
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