The BET Networks co-founder and book author tells Robb Report how she continues to build her empire.
Ask Sheila Johnson what she was like as a child, and it doesn’t take long to get a picture of the qualities that helped her become America’s first Black woman billionaire. Around age 11, for instance, she started waking up at midnight to practice the violin—in part so that her fledgling string work wouldn’t disturb her family during the day.
“The sale of BET sapped everything out of me,” Johnson says plainly. “It took me a couple of years to, as my mother would say, get my power back—to really sit back and figure out what I wanted to do. And I couldn’t think of anything.”
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