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female founders
“Female investors are twice as likely to back female entrepreneurs”
Because a female investor is twice as likely to back a female entrepreneur as a male investor. And also because I think you need to create carrots as well as stick in the life of any founder or invest
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market insight4:03 – 4:32
“The single most powerful thing VCs can do for women founders isn't marketing”
Just double clicking. Are you saying that the absolute best and most powerful thing any firm can do to try and resolve the lack of women founded businesses in their in their top of funnel deal flow is
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contrarian take18:50 – 19:30
managers. Again, not really PE managers, but growth and venture managers that we're comfortable with, and those partnerships have worked out well. I'll make one observation you didn't ask about, but it does I found it fascinating, which is that we ha
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“CEO explains why DEI isn't just politics - it's competitive advantage”
You've also continued to be an advocate for DEI practices when there's been pushback on that. Do you feel what's the right word? Like, lonely among your peers who aren't maybe being as as vocal these
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contrarian take24:26 – 25:08
“The visibility that we had as a company, which was absolutely organic. We never paid for a single speech that I had given, never paid for a single participation in a conference, beat me back and beat the company back by investors thinking that I'm a male female founder LinkedIn influencer.”
...thinking that I'm a male female founder LinkedIn influencer.
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Bold/Contrarian19:52 – 20:14
“Male beauty CEO reveals his secret to understanding female customers”
So I go to that product review and all I'm doing is up asking open ended questions. Tell me what's so great about this concealer. Like, hey, why why do we gotta charge $5? Why can't I charge a little
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tactical advice18:20 – 19:06
has some advantages over our model. And if you remember, a lot of this trade stuff started when China published something called Made in China 2025, which was their blueprint for world domination in the next six, seven years. And then you realize whe
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“Mixed standard teams only raised approximately 7%. That is far too little, obviously.”
And mixed standard teams only raised approximately 7%. That is far too little, obviously. So, of course, we're doing a series now that is focused on championing some of the women that have built incre
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Bold/Contrarian0:18 – 0:34
chasing that opportunity set. But I think starting these conversations now is important and acknowledging that the issues exist. We just had a, a firm that asked for an extension. The results of the, so far have been poor. It's like a 6% IRR. They're
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And they organized women, which was a powerful thing at the time. And then they built a microfinance bank, which is very successful. And then they started building all these ancillary vehicles, which were kind of not so successful. And I think they w
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And the challenge I have now is to ensure that we still maintain that belief that we can run through walls and that we don't get too careful. Because I think sometimes once you're too formed, you can quickly veer towards bureaucracy. So we wanna make
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capability. And, again, you know, I mentioned we have 90 external private equity allocations. Some of those firms are really spectacular at what they do. And one of the things that that I constantly push myself and the team to be intellectually hones
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focusing on the areas of high dispersion among the team and the areas of low scores. And what that's allowed is for people first of all, everyone on the team is able to express their views. But beyond that, it moves the conversation away from I like,
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“The three critical questions every business leader must answer to accelerate growth”
It's all about how do I grow faster? How do I spend less energy on the stuff that doesn't matter? How do I where are the levers? Where are the accelerators? And part of it part of that answer is comes
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framework22:29 – 22:57
was feeling all of a sudden like I'd a big portion of my peer group that I'd known was relating to me a little bit differently, and I couldn't ask some of the same questions I had. I think what initially happened for me in this space was I came to wo
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