By 24, I Built a Million-Dollar Brand — Then My Parents Sent Me a $500,000 “Childhood Invoice”

at twenty. Not when I signed my first wholesale contract with a major retailer at twenty-one. They didn’t see me until Forbes did. The 30 Under 30 list was published on a Tuesday morning, and by that evening my phone was ringing with numbers I hadn’t heard from in years. My father called to say he was “proud.” My mother wanted to know if she could continue reading …