Celeste Perez

running @drinkdroplet & • • award-winning venture designer • featured in NYT, FT, Forbes, Vogue ✨

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

Remember when I quit broadcast bc I didn’t think I looked old enough for on-camera jobs in 2009?

Look at this broadcast major, entrepreneurship minor getting some air time 😂

Thanks @Pinterest & @tastemade for having me & Droplet on live— I love it!

[asia @rysiceluvsu]

Everybody selling skincare and hair products and here Halle Berry come selling lube. This why I love her🤣

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

the part when she kept having to explain his policies for him

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

this makes me wanna join speech and debate

[Sophia Amoruso 3.0 @sophiaamoruso]

It happened to me first — headlines portraying me as a “toxic leader” when I had to make the same, often unpopular, decisions that my male peers did without critique.

For them, it’s called Founder Mode, and it’s celebrated (a proper noun! With its own merch! And trademarks being filed as I write this!).

For women, it’s called “toxic”.

After my “fall” in 2016, I watched an incredible cohort of female founders come up behind me.

I thought there was something fundamentally wrong with me and that they had it all figured out.

They were my friends, but it was hard to watch them win. I secretly muted their Instagram accounts. Why was I the only piece of shit female founder? What did they possess that I didn’t? Was it my upbringing? Maybe the media was right.

These women took big swings, raised huge rounds, and were held up as examples for countless other women who for the first time saw that their aspirations might actually be within reach.

And then, one by one, they were canceled.

Our responsibility wasn’t just to pave the way for women, but to do it perfectly — and when we weren’t examples of whatever warped mutation the word Girlboss (which is now immortalized in the Merriam-Webster dictionary) had come to symbolize, we were “toxic.”

No one expects men to build a utopian workplace that cures institutional biases, but we were expected to do just that.

This is all too complex for an X post, and I’m not making excuses for anyone.

Today, posts like this are out of character for me because, like them (as the non self-appointed consigliere for scorned Girlbosses, I know), we’ve all been told to keep gender out of the conversation.

The media’s glee surrounding the “fall of the Girlboss” has committed, at scale, more harm than any pretty, young, white (let’s call it what it is), often unrelateable female founder could ever do.

The phenomenon reminded a generation of women what we’d been told for eons: be nice and stay in your lane, or else.

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

@paupanga but maybe my hypothetical future employers should def be aware of that stuffed animal laundry service we ran that one summer 🧸 🛁… but I guess we’ll never know if that means anything 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

@paupanga So important, omg. How will I *ever* be able to evaluate whether or not you can do any job if I didn’t know you bagged groceries?! Were these past 3 years of incredible design/dev work a lie?!

It’s giving fraud. Misrepresentation. Dishonor!

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

chapell roan’s red wine supernova replacing katy perry’s firework would be the move tonight, america.

you’re welcome 🫡

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

ppl who listen to those tiktoks and fb reels with that wheezy laughing sound 😪

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

always just one beverage concept away from becoming a VC 😣

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

my parents passwords are my karma

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

tbh the final boss wins like 99.9% of the time

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

@SusanEDub A megadose of Iso E Super— adapts to your own chemistry, smells differently on every person.

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

@heykatgarcia 🤪 this is a very particular type of nerd problem and yes, I identify with it lollll

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

Airhouse was one of the most difficult things to happen to Droplet— we got out a year ago & I’m still recovering. ❤️‍🩹

It’s just not okay to do this to small businesses. You’re jeopardizing livelihoods when you could have just been honest that it wasn’t working.

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

when your fulfillment “partner” sends cases out in a trash bag, it’s time to go in-house.

fulfillment has been the absolute worst part of this entire journey. no one will ever care like you do.

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

I’ll just be over here, kiki-ing with my accountants over the phone like a teenager with a crush

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

Is there another term for “balls to the wall”?

Asking for an Aries who needs to talk to normal people

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

omg a thanos reference she is def a mom 🤣

@Beyonce #COWBOYCARTER

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

The chills I have from Jolene 😭🙌🏽

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

not me finally getting into the bachelor and needing to google what “fantasy suites” were only to find out that the illustrious @AmyKinLA wrote the whole damn book 💅🏽💅🏽💅🏽

[Celeste Perez @celesteperez___]

@bychloecaldwell Net-30 is standard, any company asking for anything longer better have a good record of paying freelancers! We have a policy of requiring payment up front for projects less than $2500— & I’m trying to get Freelance Isn’t Free Act passed in CA so co’s are required to pay BY LAW