How I Became A Founder: Perkies’s Rosie Mangiarotti
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Rosie Mangiarotti graduated from Brown University in 2018 with a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations. She was a four-year member of Brown University’s Women’s Varsity Lacrosse team, captaining it her senior year. As the Founder & CEO of Perkies, she’s managed to accomplish quite a bit already:
- Named one of “2020’s Startups to Watch” by Rhode Island Inno
- Participant in Brown University’s Breakthrough-Lab; intensive & selective 8-week accelerator program for startups
- Audience Vote Winner for the 2018 Cox Business “Get Started RI” Pitch Competition
Frederick Daso: When did you first gain interest in being a founder?
Rosie Mangiarotti: Since I can remember, my father has been an entrepreneur, so this idea of starting a company was never too foreign to me. I began taking it more seriously once I got to college, specifically my junior year, when I took a class at Brown called “The Entrepreneurial Process” taught by Professor Danny Warshay. As part of this class, we had to create a business plan…
