No.446
J. BROOKS BOUTIQUE
CEO: Jessica Brooks
Category: Retail
Three-year revenue growth: 1,296%
• When Jessica Brooks was a little girl, she cut up socks to make outfits for her Barbie dolls. But Brooks, 37, didn’t fashion human clothes until 2016, when reward points earned at her job with a telecom company helped her buy a sewing machine. After picking up some pointers on YouTube, she began making skirts and wore them around town. The bold