#383: “You're Not Behind, You're Just Building": How This Founder Built America's #1 Maternity Brand With $28K, No Connections & Zero Permission to Start - Ingrid Carney, Founder of Ingrid & Isabel

Podcast: Behind Her Empire · Yasmin Nouri

Opublikowano: 2026-05-11

Ingrid Carney is the founder of Ingrid & Isabel, the largest maternity brand in the United States. Before any of that, she co-founded a Silicon Valley startup that ended with the dot com bust. Then she got pregnant, couldn't button her pants on the way to a VC pitch, used a tube top to hold them in place, and that quick fix became the Bellaband, the product that built Ingrid & Isabel. She launched with $28,000 of her own money. Half of it went to a patent. The rest went to walking into the top maternity s...