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The Million-Dollar Library Where Nothing Is for Sale
D’Orazio World built a public-relations business by treating diamonds like library books: lend them to the right stylist, at precisely the right moment, then make sure the world notices.
Lulu Designs and the price of getting bigger
An $11,000 unpaid invoice exposed the hazards of wholesale growth. Stacy King’s jewelry studio has been moving closer to the people who wear its work.
1stDibs Put the Flea Market Online. The Hard Part Was the Checkout.
Rare chairs, real money, and the business of getting strangers to trust each other. How 1stDibs turned a Paris shopping habit into a public marketplace - and why shipping quotes now matter as much as taste.
The Jewelry Brand That Made Texture Its Trademark
For nearly five decades, LAGOS has built a national fine-jewelry business around one disciplined idea: make a strand of sculpted beads recognizable from across the room. Then keep finding new places for it to live.
Jewelry Television
Jewelry Television built a national retail business by treating a gemstone like both a product and a program. Three decades after its first one-camera broadcast, the Knoxville company is taking that live-shopping formula onto apps, auctions and streaming television.
Daniel's Jewelers
Daniel's Jewelers is a family-owned American fine jewelry retailer founded in 1948 and headquartered in Culver City, California. Operating more than 100 stores across California, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico and Florida plus an e-commerce site, the company sells diamonds, watches, engagement rings and gifts at accessible price points. Its defining feature is dignified in-store financing that extends credit to underserved shoppers regardless of income or credit history, a model that has made it a fixture in Hispanic and multigenerational communities under the banner 'Own the Dream.'
Kendra Scott
Kendra Scott is an Austin-based jewelry and lifestyle brand founded in 2002 that pairs accessible, colorful, customizable designs with a mission of 'Family, Fashion, and Philanthropy.' Built from a $500 startup into a company valued at more than $1 billion, it sells fashion, demi-fine and fine jewelry - plus watches, fragrance, eyewear and home goods - through 150-plus stores, a strong e-commerce channel and wholesale partners. Its signature Color Bar lets shoppers design their own pieces, and the company has given tens of millions of dollars to causes supporting women and youth.
HAVERHILL
HAVERHILL is a fifth-generation, family-owned fine jewelry company based in Warren, Rhode Island that makes personalized 14k gold birthstone jewelry to order. Founded by designer Haverhill Leach in 2013 and run alongside CEO Andrej Strojin, the brand pairs an in-house, waterfront studio with a direct-to-consumer, Shopify-powered storefront, shipping custom rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings in a matter of days. It has landed on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies three years running.
Andrej Strojin
Andrej Strojin is the co-founder and CEO of HAVERHILL, a Warren, Rhode Island fine-jewelry house that makes 14k gold, birthstone-personalized pieces to order rather than in advance. A Slovenian-trained mechanical engineer and former Deloitte and Strategy& consultant, he met fifth-generation jeweler Haverhill Leach on a dating app in 2018, married her four months later, and turned her artisan brand into a fast-scaling direct-to-consumer operation. When COVID shut down suppliers before Mother's Day 2020, the couple built a jewelry assembly line in their garage and cut turnaround from seven days to one. Under Strojin the company has quadrupled sales, reached $16M in 2024 revenue, and landed on the Inc. 5000 three years running.
Brilliant Earth
Brilliant Earth is a San Francisco-based fine jewelry company that built a business on a simple premise: customers should be able to know where their diamonds and gold come from. Founded in 2005 by Stanford classmates Beth Gerstein and Eric Grossberg, the company pioneered the market for ethically sourced engagement rings, natural and lab-grown diamonds, and recycled precious metals. It went public on the Nasdaq in 2021 (ticker BRLT) and operates an omnichannel model spanning e-commerce and dozens of US showrooms.
The RealReal
The RealReal is the largest online marketplace for authenticated, pre-owned luxury goods. It pairs human expert authenticators with proprietary AI to vet handbags, watches, fine jewelry, apparel and home items before resale, handling consignment end to end - pricing, photography, listing and shipping. Founded in 2011 and public on Nasdaq since 2019, the company has grown to more than 30 million members and positions itself at the intersection of luxury, technology and sustainability.
Beth Gerstein
Beth Gerstein co-founded Brilliant Earth in 2005 after a personal search for an ethically sourced engagement ring turned up nothing worth buying. An engineer by training (Duke BS at 19, MIT MS, Stanford MBA), she built a company that now generates $422 million in annual revenue and trades on Nasdaq (BRLT). Brilliant Earth is the rare luxury brand that treats supply chain transparency as a marketing advantage rather than a compliance headache - offering Beyond Conflict Free diamonds with traceable origins, lab-grown stones, and recycled metals. Under Gerstein's leadership, the company has donated over $2 million through the Brilliant Earth Foundation, partnered with Dr. Jane Goodall on conservation collections, and expanded to 28+ showrooms while maintaining 14 consecutive quarters of profitability as a public company.