When Madison Semarjian was a college freshman, she had an idea for an app: It would be like Tinder, but for clothing— using AI to learn her personal style, and then pulling together outfits from a wide range of retailers that she could swipe left or right on (and of course, buy).
Semarjian couldn’t shake the idea, so she spent all of college creating it—developing the tech, raising money, and signing partnerships with major brands like Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, and Prada. She called the app Mada, and it launched in January 2020. It was a hit with the media and style lovers because nothing like it existed.
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Managing Mental Illness Can Be a Team Effort
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Think Like a Disruptor
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THE AMIABLE FLEAS
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Taste Of Something New
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The Wild Economics of Plain Vanilla
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Be-Here-Now
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The Return Of Paul Reiser
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• Madam Rosy Senanayake was actually moved by the injustice caused to me and came to my defence.• I felt that many Sri Lankans and the entire world were behind me.• This incident affects the dignity of our country more than the beauty pageant.• I do not know why these two behaved in this manner and who manipulated them.• There are lot of individuals who helped me during the incident.
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