{"id":14788,"date":"2017-08-10T14:52:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T18:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2023-12-19T13:34:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T18:34:42","slug":"kara-ross-shares-story-samsung-summer-discovery-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/kara-ross-at-samsung-837-summer-discovery-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Kara Ross Shares Her Story at the Samsung Summer Discovery Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Monday, July 31<\/span>, Samsung hosted the second session of their 2nd annual Summer Discovery Series<\/a><\/strong> featuring guest speaker Kara Ross: famed jewelry designer, businesswoman and entrepreneur. The event took place at Samsung 837<\/a>, where attendees were able to take part in an intimate conversation with Ross as she shared career advice and reflected on her own career journey.<\/p>\n

Ross provided encouraging advice for fashion industry hopefuls, focusing on topics including how she got her start in the jewelry business, the importance of moving past rejection, maintaining a good attitude, and owning your personal responsibility to give back to others through your work. Reflecting on her own experience with interns, Ross highlighted how interns who learned to make themselves indispensable to her were the most valuable. The discussion covered the entirety of Ross\u2019 career, from her humble beginnings in fashion publishing after Georgetown University, to her in the world of jewelry design. She talked about the importance of succeeding through failure and having the tenacity and perseverance that allowed her to make it into stores like Bergdorf Goodman.<\/p>\n