Shilpa Yarlagadda started her fine jewelry company, Shiffon, in her Harvard dorm room. It’s become a celebrity favorite and she’s using half of the profits to fund female-led companies around the world—and she hasn’t even graduated yet.
Shilpa Yarlagadda was in the middle of figuring out how to launch a fine jewelry business during her freshman year at Harvard when she learned that MIT had better 3-D printers.
Yarlagadda, now a 21-year-old rising junior, wanted to print ring prototypes but Harvard’s printers couldn’t process castable resin, her material of choice. So she and her friends started going to frat parties at MIT. “If you were a materials science major [there], you could use their printers for free as much as you wanted, so we would just ask the boys,” she says. “We were like, ‘So, do you even know how to use a 3-D printer? Is that one even...
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