TODAY Grace Beverley has a net worth of over £8 million, but her business didn't even exist a decade ago. Now 27, the Tala and Shreddy founder started her side hustle as a teenager, by selling recipes online to her Instagram followers. Grace, who's from London , worked as an intern at IBM during her gap year between school and university.
She would wake up at 5am, go to the gym, work at IBM until the sun set, and post her recipes. Then just 18, she spent her weekends batch-making meals for eight hours a day - to upload the following week. The recipes were shared on Instagram for free but, after working full-time on an intern's salary and having no time on the weekend to earn extra cash, Grace remembers thinking “I can’t continue to do this".
Speaking on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast, Grace recalled she was "completely burning myself out" - so decided to start monetising her hard work. Grace typed up all the recipe’s she’d ever made into two books - one for savoury meals and one for sweet foods. She paid a friend of hers, who was a graphic design student, £50 to make the recipes into a PDF.
Then she created a Shopify account, and flogged the PDFs for a fiver. Grace, who had around 10,000 followers at the time, said she “didn’t think of it as a business at all” – just a way to make a few quid. Grace went onto launch Shreddy, a fitness app, while studying at the University of Oxford.
She also founded a sustainable activewear brand called Tala, which recei.
