Anna Shah faced a fork in the road. The soon to be international business graduate of the George Washington University was the last remaining co-founder of POP!, a sustainable thrift shop she and three other women started from scratch in spring 2021, still in school. Her other co-founders, Stephanie Cheung, Rachel Cohen and Maya Lavine, had all graduated and were beginning careers in their respective fields.
Shah pondered two possibilities. Either end POP!’s story as a wildly successful undergraduate venture that placed highly at local, national and even international competitions, or continue the business on her own...