The conference sponsored by DealBook on Thursday featured a number of prominent financial leaders.
It also featured Jessica Alba.
Ms. Alba, known for acting in films like “Never Been Kissed” and “Sin City,” is also a successful entrepreneur in her own right, after conceiving the Honest Company. The start-up, which has been around for about three years, sells diapers and personal care products and has a roughly $1 billion valuation.
Ms. Alba, who appeared at the conference alongside her co-founder, Brian Lee, shared some insights about making the transition from acting to the business world.
It’s Friday afternoon, so we’ve collected a few of our favorite quotes — in a BuzzFeed-style listicle — below:
1. “I appreciate being an actress now more than ever, because being in business is so stressful.”
2. “Board meetings are so long.”
3. Raising money is “like pitching a movie all the time.”
4. “My 30-plus-page deck got condensed into a 10-page deck, with a lot less words, a lot more pictures.”
5. “I had this idea of this brand where people could really outsource their trust.”
6. With a movie, “it’s not like your whole life is hanging on this thing. With a business, your whole life is hanging on this thing.”
7. “We don’t test our products on animals. We test our products on our kids. And on ourselves.”
Ms. Alba also explained how she came up with her alias, which recently became public after a hacking attack on Sony’s movie studio revealed the names that she and other stars use to remain anonymous when checking into hotels or other places.
“I did a movie for Sony when I was 16. It was before I even met — my husband’s name is Cash — it was before I even met Cash. I was that cool, where I at 16 was really trying to be like, ‘Cash Money!’”