E.l.f. Co-Founder Scott Borba to Be Ordained Priest at 52 After Leaving $3 Billion Beauty Empire
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Updated · The New York Times · May 20
E.l.f. Co-Founder Scott Borba to Be Ordained Priest at 52 After Leaving $3 Billion Beauty Empire
9 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 20
Scott Vincent Borba, 52, is set to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest on Saturday in California's Diocese of Fresno after leaving the cosmetics business he helped build.
Borba said years of wealth and status still left him miserable, and an existential reckoning about 12 years ago at his Hollywood Hills home pushed him toward the priesthood.
He had helped start e.l.f. Cosmetics, now a $3 billion company, and later launched his own Borba skin-care brand, wrote two books and pursued other ventures.
His ordination caps a sharp turn from entrepreneur to clergy, rooted in a search for purpose that began in California's Central Valley and ended in the Catholic Church.
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